Comment Policy

This blog is intended as an inter­active platform for sharing ideas, con­cerns and per­spec­tives on med­icine. Dif­fering view­points are welcome and encouraged. If you’d like to comment about a post, please do!

Please keep in mind that Medical Lessons is a website that is visible to everyone. You should think care­fully before posting a comment, link or other infor­mation on this site. Com­ments or posts by users other than the Author cannot by mod­ified or erased, except if the sit­u­ation is deemed appro­priate by the Author or her des­ig­nated admin­is­trator (such as in the case of mis­taken iden­ti­fi­cation, breach of con­fi­den­tiality or a frank error).

Mod­er­ation

All com­ments on Medical lessons are mod­erated by the Author who is aided by auto­mated, spam-​​blocking software. The Author reserves the right to edit com­ments for clarity, read­ability and length.

Com­ments will be blocked or removed according to the fol­lowing criteria:

The lan­guage of Medical Lessons is English. Obscenity, insults and any other lan­guage deemed offensive by the Author will be kept off the site. Do not use Medical Lessons to unduly promote a website, company or other interests; excessive and/​or inap­pro­priate links and “anchor text” will be removed.

Mod­er­ation is ongoing, usually on a daily basis, but as long as two weeks might go by without mod­er­ation due to unex­pected cir­cum­stances in the Author’s life. If for any reason the Author is not able to mod­erate com­ments for an extended period, she will make arrange­ments for a blog admin­is­trator to take over this respon­si­bility. That person, an admin­is­trator other than the Author, would have at the minimum a college degree, be lit­erate in English and be informed on prin­ciples of patient privacy, con­fi­den­tiality and HON (Health-​​on-​​the-​​Net) codes that are applicable to health-​​oriented web­sites such as this.

Any reader or other user who adds spam-​​type com­ments, track­backs or ping­backs that are deemed inap­pro­priate will be banned from using this site without spe­cific noti­fi­cation. A reader or other user may be banned from using Medical Lessons if there is a pattern of repeated insults or com­ments deemed inap­pro­priate without prior warning or other noti­fi­cation. If a reader or other user finds his or her com­ments are blocked and wishes to chal­lenge that sit­u­ation, he or she can contact the Author or other blog admin­is­trator at medical <dot> lessons <at> gmail <dot> com.

Attri­bution:

Please indicate the back­ground and sources of any infor­mation that you share on Medical Lessons using one or two links if appro­priate. The user’s authority, whether that’s based in their per­sonal expe­ri­ences in giving or receiving health care, pub­lished articles or material available through other web­sites, should be pro­vided in dis­cus­sions of medical and health matters on this site.