Accountability
About: who owns, writes and reviews this
Who is responsible for this record, what they do for a living, and every interest that could affect it.
Who owns, writes and reviews this site, and what they stand to gain. The people behind it are real, registered and accountable; their names are withheld by choice and confirmed on request. Nothing here claims a review that did not happen.
Who is behind this
| Published as | Medical Weight Loss Canada |
|---|---|
| Who maintains it | An independent record maintained by two pharmacists registered and practising in British Columbia. Their names are withheld from the site and held on file. |
| Why no names | Names are withheld from the site by choice, not because there is no one accountable. The two reviewers are registered and active with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia; their registration is confirmed on request to a regulator, a journalist or a prospective buyer. A register of who reviewed what, and when, is kept off the site. |
| Conflicts of interest | The owner is a licensed pharmacist in British Columbia who owns community pharmacies there, and holds several .ca domains related to weight loss. That is a material connection: some of the services recorded on this site dispense the same medicines. As of the build date there is no commercial relationship with any service listed here, no service has paid for inclusion, placement or links, and any future relationship will be disclosed here and on the methodology page. |
| What this means | Two working pharmacists reading every page is accountable authorship. It is not independent medical review, because the reviewers are not independent of the owner, and it does not make this site a clinical service. Their professional status raises rules about advertising and referral incentives that are being reviewed before any commercial feature is switched on. |
Reviewers
Accountability on this site means a real, registered person signs off on a category of content and can be identified to anyone with standing to ask. The roles below are defined; most are not yet filled. Until a role is filled, the row says so, and the content is labelled accordingly.
| Role | What they sign off on | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Data editor | Service records, fee components, province availability, the update log | The two maintaining pharmacists |
| Evidence reviewer | The study explainers and the 13 hubs | Filled. 102 explainers and all 13 hubs were read against the source each page records (the full paper, or the abstract and extracted data where the full paper was not available; each page says which, and the research library gives the counts) and signed, 18 September 2026. Three guideline pages are held back because the source document was not retrieved; they will be rewritten from it before review. |
| Independent clinical reviewer | Medicine references and care options, reviewed by someone outside the ownership | Not yet appointed |
| Provincial fact reviewer | Coverage records outside British Columbia | Not yet appointed |
| Professional and legal reviewer | Commercial policy, any price table, any placement, privacy | Not yet appointed; the twelve questions prepared for this review are in hand |
| Bilingual editor (Quebec) | Any French content | Not yet appointed; no French content exists |
Why no names
The two pharmacists who maintain and review this site are registered and practising in British Columbia. Their names are not printed here. That is a deliberate choice about personal privacy, not an absence of accountability, and it costs the site something: a reader cannot look them up, so this site asks to be judged on its sources and dates rather than on a byline.
What is held rather than published: both registration numbers with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, together with which pages each person read and when. That record is confirmed, with names, to a regulator, a professional body, a journalist or a prospective buyer who asks. It is not published to readers.
If that trade is not good enough for a particular reader, the right response is to check the sources. Every published cell on this site carries the document it came from and the date it was read, so nothing here depends on trusting the reviewers.
How the research was done
Two rounds of desk research in September 2026 with live browsing of official records: Health Canada's Drug Product Database and product monographs, provincial formularies and criteria documents, the providers' own pages and terms, and physician register records. Three separate review passes, run with AI research assistants, read the results against the assignment; they were quality checks on the research, not independent clinical reviews. No company was contacted, no account was created, no intake was submitted. The methodology page has the details and the evidence labels.
How AI is used here
The research, the study explainers and most page text were drafted with AI research and writing assistants working from the sources cited on each page. People decide what is published: every study page was read against its recorded source and signed by the two pharmacists before publication, and every provider and coverage fact links to the public page it came from, with the date it was read. The question page uses a language model to word answers from this site's own published records only; it says so on the page. The illustrations are AI-generated, as described below.
Register checks done and not done
Three physician names were matched on the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario public register. No pharmacy register record was opened, and no College of Pharmacists of British Columbia record was checked. For that reason this site never labels any pharmacy or clinician as verified. R22-C120 R22-C121 R22-C122
Contact and corrections
The contact page has two forms, one for readers reporting something wrong, unclear or missing, and one for the services documented here. Neither asks for health information, and the methodology page says what happens to a message. A correction with a source is checked against that source before anything changes, and the update log records every change, including corrections of this site's own errors, with the previous value, the new value and the reason.
Illustrations
The pictures on this site are AI-generated editorial illustrations made for it in September 2026. The people, places and workspaces in them are fictional. They are not photographs of readers, patients, clinicians, the reviewers or any office. The books, notes and cards in them are designed props; where a printed title cites a real published paper, the citation was checked against the PubMed record, and nothing in a picture is a source for any fact on this site.
Money
No service listed on this site has paid for inclusion, placement or links. There are no affiliate links, sponsored cards or referral buttons. If that ever changes, the change will appear on the methodology page first, the placement will be labelled and kept outside the results, and it will not alter the order of anything. The full commercial policy is on the methodology page.
Sources for this page
Every claim ID below is a row in the evidence ledger. The source date is the date the source itself carries; the access date is when the researcher opened it. A claim with several rows is one claim with several sources, not several confirmations.
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| Claim | What the source says | Source | Source date | Accessed | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R22-C120 | register record opened; name matched. Mark Broussenko, CPSO 109143; Active; Independent Practice. | register.cpso.on.ca/physician-info/?cpsonum=109143 | current live record; class effective 2018-07-13 | 2026-09-17 | regulator-confirmed |
| R22-C121 | register record opened; name matched. Kangeun Ko, CPSO 112759; Active; Independent Practice. | register.cpso.on.ca/physician-info/?cpsonum=112759 | current live record; class effective 2019-06-28 | 2026-09-17 | regulator-confirmed |
| R22-C122 | register record opened; name matched. Payman Dehghani, CPSO 91114; Active; Independent Practice. | register.cpso.on.ca/physician-info/?cpsonum=91114 | current live record; class effective 2011-11-30 | 2026-09-17 | regulator-confirmed |