Your name is already online. You did not write it.

Search your own name with your city. You will find yourself on directories you never signed up to, with a clinic you left years ago, a degree spelled wrong, a consultation fee you have never charged, and a phone number that rings somewhere else. Somewhere in those results is a doctor with your name who is not you.

None of those pages tell a patient the one thing that separates you from anyone who can afford a website: that you hold a current registration with a State Medical Council, and that somebody checked it.

What we are trying to fix

Indian medical directories are mostly advertising products. Position is sold, "verified" is a badge with nothing behind it, and the page about you exists to sell an appointment slot rather than to be correct. That is a problem for patients, and it is a problem for you: it puts a serious clinician and a well-funded one on the same page, and lets the better-funded one win.

The Doctor Index is built the other way round. A profile starts from a council registration number, not from a marketing form. Every claim on it is checked separately, against a named source, on a date the page shows. Registration is verified separately from qualification, and both separately from whether you still practise at that address — because those are three different facts and collapsing them into one tick is how the other sites end up saying things that are not true.

What that does for you

A page that says you are real

A patient sees the council, the registration number, and the date it was matched against the register. Not a badge we invented — a check they can follow. Read how verification works.

Control of what it says

Practices, hours, fees, languages, consultation modes and your introduction are yours to edit. Name, speciality and gender changes are re-verified before they go live, so nobody can quietly become a different doctor on a page carrying your registration number.

An honest expiry date

Every practice carries the date it was last reconfirmed, and a stale one is labelled stale rather than quietly left to look current. That protects you: a patient who arrives at a clinic you left is your reputation problem, not the directory's.

A right of reply

You may reply once to any published review. Replies are checked so nothing about the reviewer's health is revealed, and you can dispute a review that breaches the review policy. We do not import ratings from other platforms, so no score you have never seen follows you here.

Enquiries and numbers

Appointment enquiries reach your practice directly. Your dashboard shows views, calls and directions over the last 28 days — enough to know whether the page is working, without a sales call attached.

Search visibility you do not rent

A profile is indexed because it exists and is complete, not because it is paid for. Ranking is organic and the weights are published in full at the ranking policy. Payment is not an input, and there is no field in the code for one.

What it costs

Nothing. Not to be listed, not to be verified, not to claim the profile, not to reply to a review, not to appear higher. The basic profile is permanently free and that promise is written into the advertising policy rather than left as a launch offer.

When the site does earn money it will be from things that sit beside the directory and cannot bend it — never from position, and never from removing something true.

What we will not do

• Sell position in organic results, or offer to "boost" a profile.
• Charge for verification, or make verification a paid tier.
• Remove a policy-compliant negative review for money.
• Import star ratings or review text from other platforms.
• Publish your personal mobile number — only a practice number you consent to, and only to a signed-in patient.
• Let anyone create a page in your name without a registration number behind it.

Where we actually are

Honestly: early. Coverage is uneven, and a large share of the profiles on the site today were compiled from permitted public sources rather than supplied by the doctor. Those are published unclaimed, with their registration and qualifications marked not yet checked — because that is what they are. We would rather show you an unflattering label than a verification we have not done.

That is also the fastest way to fix a page: claim it. A claim proves you control the practice — a one-time code to the number on file, a hospital email, or a document — and the page becomes yours to correct the same day.