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Ask
the Coumadin Doctor or Pharmacist - Submit Your Question
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Here
you will find a link to an input form where you can submit
a question to Ask the Coumadin Doc.
Before
you submit a question, you might like to check in the
archive section first, to see if your question has
already been answered.
Please
remember that Ask the Coumadin Doctor can only give generic
advice. No individual diagnosis or second opinions
can be sought or offered.
MGHS
reserves the right to edit your questions to be published
on-line for space or content. It
is imperative to consult your own doctor if you are
in any way concerned about your health.
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Disclaimer
- Ask the Coumadin Clinic Doctor / Pharmacist
"Ask
the Coumadin Clinic Doctor" provides visitors a way to
submit a question electronically, to an experienced physician.
We do not guarantee that a physician will respond to any electronic
mail that you transmit to us or that any response will be timely.
Questions of general interest may be posted to this web site
in the Archived Question Section of the Coumadin Clinic web
site. Physicians will not reply directly to the person who
submitted the question.
IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION THAT NEEDS
AN IMMEDIATE ANSWER, YOU SHOULD CALL YOUR PHYSICIAN OR OTHER
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL AND IF YOU ARE CONFRONTING A MEDICAL EMERGENCY,
CALL 911 OR OTHER LOCAL NUMBER USED FOR EMERGENCIES.
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and agree to them. By clicking on the below button marked "Accept," you
acknowledge that you have read and are bound by the provisions below. Furthermore,
if you are not at least eighteen years old, you may not use this service.
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OF SERVICE
This service is not intended to provide information on which anyone should
rely to diagnose or treat a medical condition or to delay seeking medical attention
about any such condition. This service is of no value with respect to any medical
condition that needs prompt attention. If you have a question that needs an
immediate answer, you should call your physician or other medical professional
and if you are confronting a medical emergency, call 911 or other local number
used for emergencies.
Furthermore, we urge you always to seek the advice of a physician with whom
you have a doctor-patient relationship regarding any medical condition or treatment,
and you should not disregard, discount, or delay seeking the advice of a physician
because of any response posted on this web site.
This service is intended to assist you in obtaining general medical information.
This general medical information may help you to communicate more effectively
and efficiently with the treating physician and other health care professionals
involved in the diagnosis and treatment of the condition.
In responding to any electronic questions, our physician is not providing health
care services to any individual and has not established a doctor-patient relationship
with any individual. The information that our physician may provide you is
not substitute for professional health care services provided by or under the
supervision of a physician with whom you have established a doctor-patient
relationship. The information posted on this web site will contain only summary
information on a subject and may not reflect all recent developments or all
material information about a subject. Thorough consideration of a medical subject
as applied to your circumstances can and should only occur through consultation
by you with your physician.
You should be aware of the following regarding the status of the information
that you may include in your electronic question to us, since these facts could
affect the extent to which you are willing to disclose information to us in
your electronic question:
1.
Because the information is not part of a "medical record," it
will not be protected against disclosure by laws that protect
the confidentiality of medical records.
2. We use certain encryption technology to protect against any unauthorized
access to the electronic question sent to us through this service. We cannot
assure you, however, that this encryption technology will always be effective.
Although we believe that the type of encryption technology that we use is reasonable
for this type of Website, more powerful encryption technology is available.
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maintained by us. The information in this database, however, will not include
identification of any person whose individual characteristics are the source
of the aggregated information in the database. We also may use the database
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us to use any information submitted by you in any way that we choose provided
that we do not disclose your identity to any person who is not employed by,
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us.
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IS". No one makes any representation or warranty about such information;
and we specifically disclaim any express or implied warranty, including without
limitation any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular
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(whether such liability is for direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential,
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obscene, defamatory, abusive, fraudulent, or will infringe anyone's copyright
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worm, Trojan horse, or other material that could damage or adversely affect
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and all officers, directors, and employees of Marquette General Hospital against
any liability, expenses (including without limitation attorneys' fees) and
damages arising out of any claim based on your use of this service. We will
notify you as soon as reasonably practical of any such claim and will allow
you to participate in our defense against such claim, although we have the
right to limit or end such participation if, in Marquette General Hospital's
reasonable opinion, your participation is likely to become harmful to our interests.
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