Editorial Policy

Allegis Health sits on an odd but useful join: one man’s account of having a male chest reduction, and the clinical facts a plastic surgeon would put his name to. This policy explains how those two are kept apart and then fitted back together, so you can judge how far to trust what you read here.

Who writes and who checks

The articles are written by Marcus Ellery, a gynaecomastia surgery patient and the founder of this site, not a clinician. Anything that touches the medicine, how liposuction differs from gland excision, why a combined operation is the standard for true gynaecomastia, what recovery involves, how often complications such as haematoma or altered nipple sensation occur, is reviewed by Mr Julian Hart, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, FRCS (Plast), before it is published. His job is to catch anything that drifts from current practice or the published evidence. Where a page shows a reviewed date, that is the day a surgeon last checked it.

The line between experience and clinical fact

Lived experience and clinical fact are not the same thing, and we never let them blur. When I describe my own drains, the way the bruising spread further than I expected, or the chest softening over three months, that is one man and one recovery, marked as personal. When a page states what the operation removes, who it suits, or what the risks are, that is the reviewed clinical content. What happened to my chest is not a forecast of what will happen to yours.

How figures and sources are handled

The numbers here, recovery timelines, compression-vest weeks, complication rates, recurrence figures, cost ranges, come from authoritative bodies and peer-reviewed plastic-surgery literature, not from clinic marketing. We lean on national services and professional associations such as the NHS, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Cleveland Clinic, the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and specialist journals. Where the evidence gives a range rather than a single figure, we write it as a range, for example a vest worn day and night for 4 to 6 weeks, and we say plainly where the research has not settled a question. We do not round a range up into a promise, and the recurrence gap between liposuction alone and gland excision is reported as the evidence has it, not softened.

Independence

Nobody pays to appear here. We take no payment to recommend a surgeon, a clinic, a technique, or a product, and we run no affiliate links to anyone selling surgery. The Resources page points only to independent bodies, never to a booking form.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, out of date, or unclear, we want to fix it. Tell us through the Contact page. Genuine errors of fact are corrected promptly, and where a correction is material we update the page and its dates so the change is visible.

What this policy is not

None of this turns the site into medical advice, and a surgeon reviewing an article is not the same as a surgeon examining you. Please read the Medical Disclaimer alongside this policy.