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Ask
the Diabetes Educator -
Diabetes
Educators
Jody
Bailey, RN, BSN, CDE and Sarah Balko, RD, CDE
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a Question to the Diabetes Educator |
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Here
you will find a link to an input form where you can submit
a question to Ask the Diabetes Educator.
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 Diabetes Educator 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
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Disclaimer
- Ask the Diabetes Educator
"Ask
the Diabetes Educator" provides visitors a way to submit a
question electronically, to an Diabetes Educator. We do not guarantee
that a educator 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. Diabetes Educators 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.
Before you communicate with our Diabetes Educator, you must read
our terms of service and agree to them. By clicking on the 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.
TERMS
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 diabetes
information. This general diabetes 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 diabetes condition.
In responding to any electronic questions, our Diabetes Educator
is not providing health care services to any individual and has
not established a doctor-patient relationship with any individual.
The information that our Diabetes Educator 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.
3. We will have the right to include the information provided by
you in a database 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 in our own businesses.
More generally, by using this service, you authorize 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, or under contract to provide services to, us or any entity affiliated
with us.
Information posted in response to electronic questions is provided
"AS 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 use, non-infringement of any copyright
or other right, accuracy, or comprehensiveness. We are not liable
to you under any circumstances for any claim that you might otherwise
have or make as a result of your use of this service. By using this
service, you acknowledge that you are waiving any liability that
we might have (whether such liability is for direct, indirect, special,
incidental, consequential, or other damages) for any such claim.
You represent that you are at least eighteen years old. You agree
that no electronic question that you send us will include any information
or language which is obscene, defamatory, abusive, fraudulent, or
will infringe anyone's copyright or other intellectual property
or ownership right, or will contain any virus, worm, Trojan horse,
or other material that could damage or adversely affect the operation
of computers. You also agree to indemnify the operator of www.mgh.org,
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.
If any of the above provisions is or becomes illegal, invalid, or
unenforceable, then any such provision shall be severable and the
other provisions shall remain valid and enforceable. We have made
no representation, warranty or other promise to you in connection
with this service other than as stated in this agreement.
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