Verified Surgeons exists to reduce uncertainty in medical travel by investigating, documenting, and publishing the source-checked evidence patients need before choosing a surgeon.
Verified Surgeons is a not-for-profit organization of experienced healthcare-industry researchers and medical publicists who have worked with surgeons across medical specialties worldwide for a combined twenty-eight years.
It operates a surgeon verification process built around discovery, evidence-gathering, and the publication of information patients rarely receive in one organized record: credentials, clinic context, patient testimony, and verification limits.
We build source-checked surgeon profiles for patients who need more than reputation, price, or advertising.
Verification is an investigation, not a questionnaire. Our agents work in the field, on the record, and at the source, gathering records that can be reviewed, compared, and re-checked.
Discovers and consolidates every piece of published information about a surgeon into a single, organized record.
Tests every claim in the field — gathering interviews, recordings, and affidavits that confirm or contradict what was found.
Confirms academic credentials, licenses, and board certifications at their source, and cross-checks findings against multiple records.
Publishes the fact-checked findings as a cohesive Verified Surgeon™ profile and maintains it as evidence is re-verified.
From 2005 to 2016, Salvador Frutos Veta provided reputation management and image consulting to surgeons across Canada, the United States, South America, and Europe, working closely with 72 surgeons in cardiothoracic, neurosurgery, orthopedic, plastic, and bariatric specialties.
After repeatedly seeing surgeons place patient safety second to profit, he spent three years investigating diploma mills and fake medical universities — even acquiring, in Mexico City, a convincing university degree with transcripts plus a medical and a specialization certificate for $6,500 in two days, with a board-certification document offered for $50,000. That investigation became the foundation of Verified Surgeons.
Verified Surgeons operates from Yuma, Arizona — on the border, within reach of the surgeons and the patients it serves.
Whether you are a surgeon ready to submit credentials or a patient choosing care abroad, the path forward begins with a record that can be reviewed. Start here.