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2026-10-21 — We sent international patients to the wrong visa category. Our guide said that most patients entering China for treatment use the M visa, and called it the medical or "M2" visa. China's own rules say otherwise: Article 6 of the Regulations on the Administration of the Entry and Exit of Foreigners issues the M visa to people entering for commercial trade activities, and Article 7 asks an M applicant for the invitation letter of a commercial or trade partner in China — which a hospital is not. A patient who followed our sentence could have applied in a category the consulate was entitled to refuse, for a visit the M visa does not cover. The guide now sets out the categories the rules define, says plainly that we could not find a national text naming medical treatment in any of them, and tells readers to confirm the category with the consulate handling their application. _Found by: A keyword study of the terms international patients actually search for found the guide optimising for "m visa china", and sent us back to the regulation to check what M stands for._ 2026-10-04 — A lateness rule was published backwards. One hospital page told patients they must collect their appointment ticket 30 minutes before their slot. The hospital's own page says the opposite: arriving up to half an hour late is tolerated, but it is recorded as a no-show, and only beyond half an hour is the booking void. We had inverted the direction and dropped the penalty, so a patient following our sentence would have arrived believing they were compliant and lost a no-show for it. _Found by: An adversarial review fetched the hospital's live page instead of trusting our own research file._

2026-10-04 — A paused booking window was published as a permanent closure. A hospital states that its Saturday and public-holiday clinics are currently not taking bookings. We published "not bookable at all", which reads as a permanent bar and would stop a patient trying again a month later. _Found by: The same review, reading the word 暂 rather than the sense it was given._

2026-10-04 — A premium billing tier was translated as disability care. In Arabic, a hospital's 特需 rate -- a private-pay tier -- rendered as care for people with special needs. An Arabic reader would have understood the hospital as charging disabled patients a premium. _Found by: A review noticed the term had been dropped from every locale and asked why._

2026-10-04 — A temperature threshold was exclusive where the hospital's was inclusive. A hospital's fever-clinic rule applies at 37.3 °C or above. All seven languages said "above 37.3", so a patient reading exactly 37.3 was told they were fine while the hospital sent them to the fever clinic. _Found by: The same review, reading ≥ on the source page._

2026-10-04 — Twelve department descriptions misstated the specialty. Across the department-scope text: prostate disease was translated as breast disease in Portuguese, neurosurgery as neurosciences in French, menstrual irregularity as cycle regulation in German, and complete remission as complete cure in Arabic for a lymphoma response rate. One Russian value sent a patient to a hospital in a different city, 400 km away. _Found by: An adversarial review of all 1,330 department-scope values._

2026-10-04 — 355 clinicians were shown at a lower rank than they hold. The database title Associate Chief Physician (副主任医师) was rendered in 5 of 7 languages without the senior component in 71 cases -- in Russian as a lower grade than a plain chief physician. The catalogue itself was inconsistent: German and Arabic were correct, the other five were not. _Found by: An adversarial review of the 623 clinician biographies._

2026-10-03 — Ten hospitals were advertising another hospital's strengths. Two pairs of hospital profiles carried byte-identical strength lists, so one row was stating the other's facts; two more named a university their own affiliation contradicted; and nine asserted direct National Health Commission control that no source supported. _Found by: Two translation agents independently refused to translate a bullet their own row contradicted._

2026-10-03 — A hospital's own name was printed in two scripts. The 惠侨 medical centre appeared as one transliteration in three paragraphs and a different one in the fourth -- on the paragraph carrying the 30% surcharge. The Russian form dropped the Chinese entirely. _Found by: Comparing the rendering of one name across the values of a single key._

2026-10-03 — Seven departments were silently untranslated. Department prose was resolved by slugging the English name in our database, which disagreed with the research file for seven of seventeen departments. Those seven fell back to raw English in every language, and the page still rendered correctly, so nothing noticed. _Found by: Building the key map from the data file and comparing it against the catalogue._

2026-10-03 — A quality score existed that the site is not allowed to publish. A dead function graded hospitals Exceptional / Leading / Strong / Established. It rendered nowhere, but it was the one piece of quality ranking in the repository, and publishing a self-assigned grade is outside what this site may claim about a medical provider. _Found by: Auditing the repository against the feasibility study's MUST NOT list._

2026-10-02 — A verified hospital showed no date. A profile could say a hospital was verified and never say when. A three-year-old profile read as current. The data was always there and complete; nothing rendered it. _Found by: Measuring the feasibility study's last-verified requirement against the pages._

2026-10-01 — The five guide articles were English only. The title, excerpt and body of all five guides bypassed the translation catalogue entirely, so they read in English on every language of the site. _Found by: Auditing which rendered values had no catalogue key at all._

2026-09-30 — A whole section rendered its English source directly. The international-department descriptions printed the database string as-is. Forty-six translated units existed and none of them had anywhere to render. _Found by: Reading the page component rather than the catalogue._

2026-09-28 — A career headline was attached to the wrong person. A clinician biography and an academic rank in the same record disagreed -- the biography read Chief Physician where the rank field said Associate Chief -- and neither was verified against a source. _Found by: A data audit of the clinician table._