Twelve questions patients and practice owners actually put to AI assistants, answered plainly. Each answer stands alone — the way an answer engine would quote it.
How do patients choose a doctor online in India?
Most patients research before they book: they search the doctor's name, read whatever appears, and increasingly ask AI assistants which specialist to see. A referral still opens the door, but the online record confirms it. Doctors with accurate, consistent public information convert that research; doctors without it lose patients they never knew existed.
Does ChatGPT recommend doctors?
Ask ChatGPT for a good dermatologist in Gurugram and it answers — cautiously, but with names. Those names come from public evidence: profiles, directories, published articles, consistent credentials. It is not a medical referral, and platforms hedge, but well-documented practitioners appear repeatedly. Undocumented ones do not appear at all.
How can a doctor appear when someone asks AI for the best specialist in their city?
Become the easiest specialist to verify. That means one precise public description of your qualifications, specialisation and practice; every directory and profile agreeing with it; independent published material corroborating it; and content that answers the treatment questions patients actually ask. ProminAI builds and maintains exactly this record.
Is it ethical for a doctor to build a personal brand in India?
Professional norms, including NMC guidance, restrict solicitation, inflated claims and the advertising of outcomes. They do not prohibit accurate public information about qualifications, services and practice details. An honest public record is not an advertisement — and it is the only kind of presence ProminAI builds. Your regulator's current rules govern.
What information about a doctor should be publicly available and consistent?
Your name and registration, qualifications with their institutions, specialisation described precisely, hospital or clinic affiliations, consultation locations and timings, services offered, and languages spoken. Every source — website, directories, hospital pages, profiles — should state these identically. Contradictions between sources are what make AI systems hedge or go silent.
Why does AI show my clinic's old address or wrong timings?
Because somewhere public — an old directory entry, an expired listing, a page you forgot exists — still carries the old details, and AI systems read those sources. The fix is unglamorous: correct every source, publish the accurate version prominently, then monitor so a stale entry cannot quietly resurface.
Do patient reviews decide what AI says about a clinic?
Reviews are one input, not the decisive one. AI descriptions lean on verifiable facts — credentials, specialisation, consistency across sources, independent coverage — more than on star counts. ProminAI does not sell or seed reviews; we build the factual, corroborated record that carries more descriptive weight than scattered opinion.
Can a small clinic compete with hospital chains in AI answers?
Within a specialty and a locality, yes. Chains are documented broadly but rarely deeply; a clinic with precise, corroborated evidence about one thing — implantology, IVF, sports injuries — is often the clearer answer to a specific question. Specificity is the small practice's structural advantage in AI search.
How long does it take for a doctor's AI presence to improve?
Corrections to wrong details typically propagate within weeks. Richer, more confident descriptions of the practice usually take two to three months of published, corroborated evidence. Nobody can promise a date on platforms they do not own — so every ProminAI deliverable is logged with a live link while the change compounds.
Does ProminAI write medical content or health advice?
No. We publish editorial about the practitioner and the practice — qualifications, services, approach, practice story — never clinical advice, treatment claims or outcome promises. You approve every word before publication, and your regulator is recorded at onboarding so the work stays within what your profession permits.
What does AI visibility cost for a doctor in India?
The Starter article is ₹3,499 + GST. A Foundation month — baseline audit, Brand Truth File, first article, ten verified mentions — is ₹14,999 + GST. Longer memberships run up to ₹1,19,999 + GST across a full year. Against a patient journey worth ₹25,000–₹1,50,000, one additional patient typically covers the programme that found them.
Should the doctor or the clinic be the brand?
Both, deliberately linked. Patients ask about each — the clinic when choosing where, the doctor when choosing whom. Your credentials corroborate the clinic; the clinic's record corroborates you. ProminAI's Brand Truth File defines both entities and keeps every public source describing them consistently, so neither weakens the other.