First, Do No Harm.
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death. Licensing boards dismiss 97% of complaints. Dangerous practitioners quietly relocate and keep practicing.
Malpracticed is a permanent, public record. Every report filed here is cryptographically sealed, hash-chain ledgered, and anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps. No medical board can bury it.
$5 to file. Free to browse. Permanent and immutable.
Search for a doctor, psychiatrist, nurse, or facility by name, license number, or location
The Problem
Medical oversight is captured by the profession it is meant to regulate.
They took an oath. We keep the record.
Self-Regulating Boards
Medical licensing boards are staffed and funded by the profession they oversee. 97% of complaints are dismissed. Investigations happen behind closed doors. The public rarely learns the outcome — even when patients die.
Practitioners Who Migrate
When a dangerous doctor is disciplined in one jurisdiction, they surrender their license, cross a state or provincial line, and start over. No centralized public record connects the dots across borders.
Complaints Disappear
Patients file complaints that take years to resolve — if they resolve at all. Disciplinary records are sealed, purged, or buried in databases the public cannot search. Repeat offenders stay invisible.
Institutional Cover-Ups
Hospitals settle malpractice suits quietly with NDAs that silence victims. Nurses and staff who report unsafe conditions face termination. The public never learns which facilities are dangerous until someone else is harmed.
The Solution
An immutable, cryptographically-verified record that cannot be erased, altered, or buried.
File a Sworn Report
Identify the practitioner. Describe the violation under oath. Sign with your legal signature. Your report carries full evidentiary weight.
Cryptographic Sealing
Every report is SHA-256 hashed, appended to an immutable hash-chain ledger, and submitted to OpenTimestamps for Bitcoin blockchain anchoring.
Permanent Record
No medical board, no hospital, no professional association can delete, alter, or suppress your filing. It exists permanently in the cryptographic record.
By The Numbers
The scale of medical harm that current oversight systems fail to prevent.
251,000+
Deaths per year from medical errors in the US alone (BMJ, 2016)
97%
Of complaints to medical boards are dismissed without disciplinary action
5.2%
Of physicians account for over half of all paid malpractice claims (NPDB)
$4.7B
Paid in US medical malpractice settlements annually — most with NDAs that silence victims
What We Track
Six categories of medical misconduct, covering everything from negligence to institutional cover-ups.
Medical Negligence
Misdiagnosis, delayed treatment, surgical errors, wrong-site surgery, failure to monitor, medication errors, anaesthesia complications.
Psychiatric Abuse
Involuntary commitment fraud, overmedication, chemical restraint abuse, conversion therapy, unethical experimentation, isolation abuse, coerced treatment.
Patient Rights Violations
Informed consent violations, privacy breaches, denial of medical records, refusal of treatment, discrimination, disability rights violations.
Fraud & Billing
Unnecessary procedures, upcoding, phantom billing, kickback schemes, insurance fraud, predatory billing practices, pharmaceutical conflicts of interest.
Professional Misconduct
Sexual abuse of patients, substance impairment on duty, boundary violations, falsified credentials, practicing beyond scope, abandonment of care.
Institutional Failures
Chronic understaffing, falsified safety records, infection control failures, equipment negligence, cover-ups of adverse events, retaliation against whistleblowers.
How It Works
Search the Registry
Search by practitioner name, license number, or facility. If the person isn't listed, you can add them to the registry yourself. Facilities can be registered with their type and location.
File a Sworn Declaration
Select the violation category and type. Describe the incident under oath. Provide your legal name, email, and digital signature. Or file anonymously at 25% trust weight. A $5 anti-spam donation is required.
Cryptographic Sealing
Your report content is SHA-256 hashed and appended to an immutable, append-only hash-chain ledger stored on LUKS-encrypted RAID 1 storage. The hash is submitted to OpenTimestamps for Bitcoin blockchain anchoring.
Permanent, Verifiable Record
You receive a filing reference and SHA-256 hash. Anyone can verify the report hasn't been tampered with at any time. No medical board, no hospital administration, no professional association can alter, delete, or suppress your filing.
Sister Projects
Malpracticed is the medical counterpart to PigWatch.org (police), RottenRobes.org (judiciary), and CrownWatch.org (government). Same cryptographic infrastructure. Same commitment to permanent, tamper-proof public records. Different target.