Editorial team — radical honesty.

Who we are

HartaFarmacii is a personal project built by Andrei-Șerban, a software developer in Romania. All editorial pages (patient guides, symptom pages, condition pages, glossary) are written under the byline „HartaFarmacii team — curation of public information, periodically reviewed, does not replace medical consultation".

That byline is not a hideout — it is an honest label for what the content actually is: editorial synthesis from public sources, not personal medical opinion.

Lack of medical credentials (stated openly)

Andrei-Șerban is not a doctor, not a pharmacist, and has no formal medical training. This page states this openly so readers can calibrate their trust in the published texts. All medical content on the site is synthesised from:

• ANMDMR (Romania's national agency for medicines and medical devices) — approved patient leaflets, safety communications, summaries of product characteristics;
• EMA (European Medicines Agency) — public scientific assessments, monographs;
• WHO — general public-health recommendations;
• Guidelines published by Romanian and European medical societies (when publicly available).

We do not source from forums, comments, social media, or untraceable secondary articles. Every medical claim attempts to point back to a citable primary source.

Editorial policy — principles

1. Factuality before fluency. If there is a conflict between a stylistically pleasant sentence and a sentence faithful to the source, we choose fidelity.
2. Cited source, not personal opinion. For any medical claim, we try to indicate the source (ANMDMR, EMA, official leaflet). Articles that cannot indicate a source are flagged „general informational".
3. Permanent disclaimer. Every article with medical content carries the disclaimer „does not replace medical consultation" at the end and a recommendation to consult a doctor/pharmacist.
4. Accessible language. We avoid unnecessary medical jargon; when needed, we explain terms.
5. No hype. No „miracle cures", no promises, no off-label procedures rebranded as standard treatment.

How we decide what to write about

Each article starts from a single criterion: is there real user demand and a gap in publicly available Romanian-language information? In practice:

• We see in analytics what visitors search for (internal-search query strings, Google queries that lead to 404).
• We check whether the answer already exists somewhere in Romanian at a satisfactory standard; if it does, we link out — we don't cannibalise.
• If it doesn't exist or is scattered, we write a consolidated page — always with a link back to the primary source.

We don't write articles for SEO's sake. We don't publish „miracle recipes", „natural remedies", or speculation. We'd rather skip an article than publish something unsubstantiated.

Writing process

1. Research: read the primary sources (leaflets, SmPCs, guidelines).
2. Outline: extract key points with citations in our internal comments.
3. Drafting: write accessibly, while preserving accuracy.
4. AI assistance (optional): a language model may be used for stylistic clean-up, but every medical fact is verified in the source before publication. We do not publish auto-generated content without review.
5. Publication: the article gets a timestamp and goes into the queue for re-review at 6 months.

Periodic review

Medical content ages. A recommendation valid in 2024 may be obsolete in 2026 (drug withdrawn, dosage revised, new contraindication). Our process:

• Each article has a lastReviewed field shown at the bottom.
• Articles older than 6 months are flagged internally for re-review.
• Re-review means: re-reading the current primary source + update or label „verified, no changes as of X".
• Articles about specific drugs are checked again whenever ANMDMR/EMA issue safety communications.

Correction process

If a reader or a specialist reports an error:

1. We confirm receipt within 24h at contact@hartafarmacii.ro.
2. We verify the primary source. If the error is confirmed, we correct within 7 days.
3. If the error is contestable (different interpretation of the same source), we publish the version with the most concurring sources, or add an explanatory note.
4. After correction, we update lastReviewed for the article and inform the reporter by reply.
5. In rare cases where the correction is rejected (e.g. unsourced request), we explain why.

There is no silent takedown: if an article is withdrawn, a public note remains explaining the withdrawal.

External medical reviewer — TBD

To increase editorial credibility, the medium-term plan is to engage a consulting pharmacist to review articles about drugs and interactions before publication, against a small per-article fee. This role is currently a placeholder — we'll publicly announce a name when we have one.

Until then, we openly state the absence of an external reviewer. For sensitive articles (drug interactions, contraindications in pregnancy, paediatric dosing) we systematically recommend pharmacist/doctor consultation in the body of the article.

Contact for editorial reports

contact@hartafarmacii.ro →

Useful subject: „Editorial correction — [article URL] — [short error summary]". Attached sources (links or documents) speed up the process.

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