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La Bàn Y KhoaMedCompass

Editorial standards

This library exists because in Vietnam there is a lot of beauty content and very little reviewed medical knowledge about it. Our bet is simple: a page that names its reviewer and shows its sources is worth more than ten pages that do not.

6 editorial rules, all of them lockedread live from the system, not copied onto this page

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Không trang y khoa nào được xuất bản khi chưa có chữ ký của bác sĩ có giấy phép hành nghề

Hệ thống khoá nút xuất bản cho tới khi tồn tại bản ghi ký duyệt gồm tên người ký và ngày ký.

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2
Duyệt lại tối thiểu mỗi 12 tháng, hoặc ngay khi nguồn gốc thay đổi khuyến cáo

Quá hạn thì trang tự chuyển trạng thái và hiện dải cảnh báo cho người đọc.

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3
Mọi trang phải có mục "điều chưa chắc chắn"

Thiếu mục này thì bài không gửi được sang hàng chờ duyệt chuyên môn.

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4
Không bảng giá, không xếp hạng cơ sở hay bác sĩ

Bộ lọc chặn ở tầng dữ liệu. Ngoại lệ duy nhất là một bảng tham chiếu quốc tế phi cơ sở trên trang chi phí.

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Đính chính được công bố, không sửa lặng lẽ

Mỗi lần sửa nội dung y khoa đã xuất bản sinh một bản ghi công khai gồm nội dung cũ, nội dung mới, lý do, người sửa, ngày sửa.

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Không dùng máy dịch cho nội dung y khoa

Bản dịch do người dịch và phải được bác sĩ ký lại trước khi xuất bản.

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Why these are locked rather than configurableAll six share one property: switching them off makes the library faster, more prolific, and better ranked in search. The pressure to switch them off will always exist, and in any given case there will always be a reasonable argument for it. The only way to keep them is to make switching them off impossible by ordinary administrative decision — it requires changing the database schema, and that leaves a trace elsewhere.

The medical board5 doctors, licences checked

DoctorScopeSign-offsConflict of interest
BS. Lê Hoài NamPhẫu thuật tạo hình thẩm mỹ8None declared
BS. Nguyễn Hạnh ChiDa liễu2None declared
BS. Ngô Thị VânGây mê hồi sức4None declared
BS. Phạm Quốc ViệtPhẫu thuật tạo hình thẩm mỹ0None declared
BS. Đặng Quốc HuyNội khoa1Declared
Có cố vấn cho một công ty dược trong lĩnh vực nội tiết. Đã khai báo bằng văn bản; bị chặn ký bài thuộc lĩnh vực đã khai báo.

Licences and scope of practice are checked, conflicts of interest are declared in writing, and both are re-checked every 12 months. A doctor with a declared conflict is blocked from signing off pages in that area — the database refuses the sign-off, it is not left to good intentions. Fees are paid per period, never per page signed.

Who answers for what

RoleResponsible forCannot do
Medical boardSigning off medical content and setting the evidence gradeThe only role that can sign off — and it cannot rewrite the editors’ wording
Editor-in-chiefDeciding what gets publishedCannot publish a page with no doctor’s signature, and cannot clear a quality block
EditorsDrafting, structure, plain-language rewritingCannot publish, and cannot change an evidence grade
TranslatorsBilingual versions, terminology consistencyCannot machine-translate medical content; a translation must be re-signed by a doctor
Quality controlSource checking, duplication checks, hidden-advertising filterCan block publication — but CANNOT publish
System administrationInfrastructure, accounts, configurationCannot sign off medical content, whatever the seniority
Audit — read onlyIndependent review of the recordCan see everything, can change nothing
ReadersReporting errors—

What this library deliberately does not do

⊘We do not rank clinics or doctors — the schema has no table that could hold a ranking.
⊘We publish no facility prices, not even as a range.
⊘There is no booking button, and no field linking a page to any revenue.
⊘We record no referral revenue — there is no referral table.
⊘We do not answer questions about an individual case online.
⊘We store no medical records; interactive tools run on the reader’s own device.
⊘We do not collect a phone number in exchange for a tool’s result.
⊘We keep no list of recommended places, publicly or internally.

Where the money comes from

Every free source has someone paying for it. The large aesthetic review platforms in this region live on money from clinics, and a per-patient referral fee model led to a criminal conviction in South Korea in July 2023 — a suspended sentence for the individual running the operating company, not for the company itself.

So we made it structuralThere is no field in our database that records revenue attached to a reader being sent to a clinic. That is an architectural decision, not a policy that can change at a meeting: the table does not exist, so nobody in the organisation can switch it on without changing the schema and leaving a trace in the audit record.

We also do not measure success by page count or page views. The three numbers we treat as the library’s real health: pages past their review date (currently 2), claims with no source, and how many days a page waits for a doctor.

Relationship with Nhật Ký ĐẹpTwo separate products. Nhật Ký Đẹp is where people tell their own stories; its content is created by the community and moderated. La Bàn Y Khoa is where knowledge is compiled and signed off. The two may link to each other, but they share no content database, no review process, and no sign-off team.
Corrections are public4 corrections have been published. Each one carries a fixed number, the old wording, the new wording, the reason, who made it and when. Two of them began with a reader telling us a number was wrong. The corrections log →
IndependenceNo clinic pays to appear on this site, there are no sponsored medical pages, and no provider can influence a page about a procedure they offer. If that ever changes, it will be stated on this page before anything else changes.