I plan to do a review and rating of all online homeopathic consultants from an online patient or patient-to-be's stand point in an effort to ensure that unbiased views are represented. This will allow the stronger ones to maintain their standards and weaker ones to improve where they lack.

I would appreciate if I can have the contribution from the members for the following:

1. URLs for all online homeopathic consultants that you are aware of

2. Formatting a standard criteria for evaluation

Inputs will be taken from any and all interested members.

If I can get volunteers (definitely none of the homeopaths who have an online clinic) that would be great, otherwise it would be a one-man team.

Since it would be a volunteer effort in my free time, so there would be tentative deadlines, slippage from which should be expected but not necessary.

The results & criteria will be transparent to the degree humanly possible.

Let me know what you all think.

Here is a draft of the criteria:

Score of 1 to 3 (3 is best)

1. Ease of Site usability (subjective)
2. First time consultation charges (US$ <50, 50-100, >100)
3. Subsequently per 3 months consultation (US$ <50, 50-100, >100)
4. Work experience (~9 years, 10-19 years, 20+)
5. Options for payment of fee - Credit card, Paypal, Western Union
6. Does site have testimonials – (yes, no)
7. Physical address & contact details available (yes, no)
8. Classical homeopath (single remedy) (yes, no, mostly)
9. Refund policy (Yes, No)
10. Disclaimer (Yes, No)
11. Emergency help (Yes, No)
12. Online chatting (yes, no)
13. Phone contact (yes, no)
14. Client feedback system (yes, no)
15. Visitors feedback system (yes, no)
16. Link to homeopathic BB & forums (yes, no)
17. Integrative medicine approach (yes, no)

Questions for the homeopath
18. What is your basic education (Graduate, MS, higher)
19. Are you MBBS/MD also (yes, no)
20. Affiliation & certification details (yes, no)
21. Do you use single remedy (yes, no)
22. Do you use combination (yes, no)
23. Do you use LM potencies (yes, no, rarely)
24. Disclose the name of the remedy (Yes, No, sometimes)
25. Patient has the options for buying the remedy (Yes, No)
26. Do you use any homeopathic software (yes, no)
27. Have you ever treated cancer (yes, no)
28. What is your overall success rate in %age (success = verifiable removal of disease symptoms) (~50%, 50-70%, >70%)
29. How many times have you studied whole of the Organon (~3, 3-7, >7)

Here are the tentative details:

The reviews can be distributed to team members (if I get volunteers). Final results can be compiled in EXCEL.

Site review will be done without the inputs of the site owner.

A standard questionnaire will be sent to all site owners for response related to the questions about the homeopath of the site.

No response would earn an automatic ZERO to the site so its FORCED RANKING methodology.

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Sounds like a worthwile pursuit to me. BUt there may be a need to get informed consent if specific people's names are to be included.

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Imo, to keep it simple, whatever is available on the internet is public domain unless protected by copyright.

Site review is the opinion of the person(s) doing the analyses, hence doesn't require any consent from the site owner.

Questionnaire to the site owner would be worded to be self explanatory regarding its usage.

If the criteria of evaluation & responses are transparent and public, any user can decide for himself if the ranking is justified or not and whether the criteria used for evaluation makes sense or not.

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IF a person is evaluating their homeopath some informed consent should be asked for. Does this include the name of the homeopath? How would you know if the evaluation is authentic?

This is the same situation as when a homeopath seeks to use the case of a person for an article. The homeopath has to obtain an informed consent in all possible cases, even if they do not use the name of the patient.

Some possiblele problems one can run into with these evaluations.

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I missed your point in the earlier post. Yes, it goes without saying, informed consent in such a case is mandatory, plus evaluating your own homeopath will involve conflict of interest and hence very difficult to be objective and transparent.

That's why I posted the draft criteria here so that it can be thrashed and made usable before attempting to guage others using it.

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Regarding seeking a patient's consent for discussing his case anywhere with anonymity is preferable, not necessary, imo.

The anonymity in itself protects the confidentiality, its intrinsic safety.

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But what are you going to do with the results after you've compiled them? How would you make them available to others? I'd be glad to help, to do what I can with the time I can spare.

The anonymity in itself protects the confidentiality, its intrinsic safety.

THis is not necessarily so. Diffierent people have different ideas of confidentiality which must be respected. Discussing a case within the professional framework in private is fine. BUt having ones (case) information that can possibly be corelated, and available on the net for everyone is quite different.

So the only way to deal with this is informed consent.

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Dr. Leela: A smart person (doctor) knows what can be correlated and what can't. I assume most are smart

Grannysue: The results will be displayed on all homeopathic BB. For starters, go through the draft I have written above and suggest your improvements, if any.

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On your post Cyber quoted

I agree with above. But would like to add more:-

Few URLs are mentioned below:
Dr. Muhammad Akram http://www.curekeys.com

Dr. Faqir Muhammad http://www.homoeopathy.com.pk

Dr. Aamir http://www.draamir.com

Dr Tariq khan http://www.khanhomoeo.com

Dr. Muhammad Iqbal http://www.brain.net.pk/~iqbalv/homeo.html

Dr. Saleem Hamid http://www.homeopathy.what.cc/

Dr. Riffat Hashmi http://www.homeoz.com/

Homeopathic clinic http://www.familyfront.com

Dr. Sajid Mahmood http://www.homeopathicmedicine.cjb.net

Dr. MAS http://www.drmas.org http://www.drmas.tk