We welcome and encourage open discussion on Mercy Medical Center/Roseburg, Oregon’s social media sites - including but not limited to our blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube pages and online story-sharing forums - and look forward to any comments, stories and experiences you want to share.
That said, we do make reasonable efforts to monitor participation to ensure that you stay on topic, are courteous and avoid making offensive comments. Please remember that information posted on any of our social media platforms shouldn't be considered medical advice and shouldn't replace a consultation with a health care professional.
Please be aware that once you post something online, there's the potential for thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of people to read your words, even years from now. As a result, we suggest that you exercise caution when posting medical information on any of our social media sites and that you not disclose personal identifiable information like your location, medical record number, financial information, etc.
The opinions and or views expressed on Mercy Medical Center/Roseburg, Oregon’s social media platforms, including, but not limited to, our blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages, represent the thoughts of individual bloggers and online communities, and not those necessarily of Mercy Medical Center/Roseburg, Oregon or any of its corporate affiliates or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, research staff, medical staff or members of its respective board of directors. The opinions and views expressed on these pages do not in any way reflect the views of the site they are posted on, other sites affiliated with the site, the staff involved with maintaining the site or any members of the site.
That's the plain English and abbreviated version. Here it is in legal language:
The opinions and or views expressed on Mercy Medical Center/Roseburg Oregon’s social media platforms, including, but not limited to, our blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages, represent the thoughts of individual bloggers and online communities, and not those necessarily of Mercy Medical Center/Roseburg, Oregon or any of its corporate affiliates or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, research staff, medical staff or members of its respective board of directors. The opinions and views expressed on these pages do not in any way reflect the views of the site they are posted on, other sites affiliated with the site, the staff involved with maintaining the site or any members of the site.
While Mercy Medical Center/Roseburg, Oregon makes reasonable efforts to monitor and/or moderate content posted on its social media platforms, we do not moderate all comments and cannot always respond in a timely manner to online requests for information.
Mercy Medical Center/Roseburg, Oregon reserves the sole right to review, edit and/or delete any comments it deems are inappropriate. Comments including but not limited to the following may be deleted or edited by the moderators:
- Abusive or hurtful comments about a blogger or another participant
- Off-topic and redundant comments (this includes promotion of events, groups, pages, Web sites, organizations and programs not related to or affiliated with the hospital)
- Comments that use foul language or "hate speech" (for example, including but not limited to racial, ethnic or gender bashing language)
- Personal attacks or defamatory statements or comments (i.e., making negative personal or untrue comments about a participant), instead of just criticizing his/her posting, opinion or comments
- Comments that violate the privacy of our patients and their families
Information posted on one of our sites is not intended to be medical advice and should not be considered medical advice, nor is it intended to replace consultation with a qualified physician or other health care provider.
All links to other Web sites found linked from Mercy Medical Center/Roseburg, Oregon’s social media sites are provided as a service to readers, but such linkage does not constitute endorsement of those sites by Mercy Medical Center /Roseburg, Oregon and as such we are not responsible for the content of external Web sites.
By submitting content to any of Mercy Medical Center/Roseburg, Oregon’s social media sites, you understand and acknowledge that this information is available to the public, and that Mercy Medical Center/Roseburg, Oregon may use this information for internal and external promotional purposes and fundraising purposes. Please note that other participants may use your posted information beyond the control of Mercy Medical Center/Roseburg, Oregon. If you do not wish to have the information you have made available via this site used, published, copied and/or reprinted, please do not post on this page.
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