Medical accuracy, professional caution and clinical responsibility are the basic principles behind every piece of medical information published on psy.clinic. This policy explains which materials are medically reviewed, who reviews them, what the review checks and how often published pages are re-examined. It complements the Editorial Policy, which describes how our materials are written.
Psychiatry deals with complex conditions in which the same symptoms may have different causes and the same diagnosis may call for different treatment. Medical review is meant to strengthen the reliability of our information, reduce inaccuracies, sharpen professional wording and make sure that the text reflects the real complexity of psychiatric work without promising more than clinical practice can deliver.
Not every page requires the same level of review. The level depends on the nature of the content, its sensitivity and its significance for the reader.
Medical review at IsraClinic is carried out by the clinic's senior psychiatrists, who hold permanent medical licences and specialist certifications in psychiatry issued by the Israel Ministry of Health:
Where a text concerns neurology, pain medicine or clinical psychology, the clinic's licensed neurologist or clinical psychologist is consulted in their field. A text written by one of the reviewers is checked by another member of the clinical team, so that the author of a clinical text is not its only reviewer. The licences of all physicians and psychologists of the clinic can be verified in the professional registry of the Israel Ministry of Health; the numbers are listed on the Legal Status, Licensing & Certifications page.
The reviewer may approve the text, return it to the author with comments or decline it. A text is published only after the reviewer's remarks have been resolved.
Each Health Library article shows its author and the dates of publication and of the last update. Pages and articles that have undergone medical review show the line "Medically reviewed by" with the name and position of the reviewer under the text. The same information is included in the structured data of the page for search engines. If a page shows no reviewer, responsibility for its content lies with the clinic as the publisher.
Clinical content is re-examined at least once every twelve months. An earlier review is carried out when:
The date of the last update is shown on every page. A page whose review changed nothing keeps its previous date.
Medical review makes our information more reliable, but it does not turn it into medical advice. Even a reviewed text describes conditions and treatments in general terms and cannot take into account the history, concomitant conditions, medication and circumstances of an individual reader. A diagnosis and a treatment plan can only be established in a consultation with a qualified specialist. If you are in Israel and you or someone near you is in immediate danger, call the emergency services on 101 (Magen David Adom); emotional first aid is available around the clock from ERAN on 1201. Outside Israel, contact your local emergency number or crisis line.
If you have found a medical statement on this website that you believe to be inaccurate or outdated, please write to info@psy.clinic and name the page and the passage. Reports are passed to the reviewing psychiatrist; where a correction is warranted, the page is updated and its "last updated" date changes.
This policy was adopted in September 2026.