The standardswe keep.

I. Disqualifying conditions

A practice cannot be recognized in the reserve while any of the following are true:

• — Any attending physician lacks an active, unrestricted medical license in the state where care is delivered.
• — A physician of the practice has an unresolved FDA Warning Letter, State Medical Board disciplinary action, or DEA action on record.
• — The practice materially misrepresents credentials, board certification, or the identity of its treating physicians.
• — The practice engages in the sale of therapies whose use is prohibited in its jurisdiction.
• — The practice pays third parties for aggregator placements, purchased reviews, or undisclosed affiliate arrangements.

II. Review cadence

Every recognized practice is reviewed on a rolling annual cycle, and again whenever an editor is notified of a material change — a departing physician, a regulatory action, a relocation, or a shift in the character of the practice. Recognition is not a permanent credential; it is a present-tense judgement, and it is subject to revision.

III. Corrections & updates

Factual corrections — physicians, addresses, protocols, licensure — are welcome from anyone and are made without contest once verified. The editorial characterization of a practice is the editors' own and is not adjusted at the request of the practice, its patients, or its critics.

Requests may be sent to editor@protocolreserve.co.

IV. Membership & judgement

A recognized practice sustains its place in the reserve through a standing membership, which underwrites continued curation and verification. Elite Profile is an optional expansion of visibility within the directory. Neither membership nor Elite status can purchase inclusion, alter the language of a profile, or move a practice past a disqualifying condition. If the standards above are no longer met, recognition ends — regardless of paid status.