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***IMPORTANT NOTE**** Starting July, 2009 the endo@obgyn.net forum is now being fully moderated. This means no message is posted to the full readership until it is reviewed and approved by one of the moderators to ensure it complies with the forum guidelines. Our goal is to approve messages within a few hours of receipt but on occasion it may be longer before the approved message is posted to the public.
The forum guidelines are meant to provide a structure so everybody has the right and chance to speak, be respected and not slandered. This also applies to the physicians and medical professsionals. It is not our intent or desire to censor any messages or people and will only do so when it violates the guidelines. (see below for full guidelines)
We recommend you review the guidelines before posting. Some of the important additions are that affiliations need to be listed, a screen name used, and no negating or harassing people for their opinions.
Note: Opinions expressed here are for educational purposes only and, as such, do not constitute a physician-patient relationship. This information is not intended to supplant the need for you to consult with your physician prior to choosing therapeutic options and/or interventions.
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Our moderated general women's support medical education forum is at http://forums.obgyn.net/womens-health and is available for you to ask questions of our obgyn.net medical professionals. By August 2009, a moderated endometriosis forum where world-experts will answer your questions will be open on the endometriosiszone.org website.
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All messages sent to this forum are archived and can be viewed at http://forums.obgyn.net/endo and is accessible to anybody on the internet including internet search engines. This should be taken into consideration before sending postings of a personal or confidential nature. To help with this, you may select a screen name, such as your first name only, and hide your email address as anonymous.
We had disabled for the past four years posting messages by email but since the forum is now moderated and every message is reviewed you can if you wish send a message to endo@obgyn.net for the forum. However, messages sent this way will NOT be anonymous so do not do this if that is an issue. If you send email we highly encourage you to send it in 'plain text' format which is much more readable in the forum format then is rich text, HTML and marked up text.
Forum Guidelines:
All women, men, medical professionals are welcome to participate in the forum as long as the posts have relevancy in the context of the disease Endometriosis and adhere to the forum guidelines.
The medical professionals, moderators and women who participate in this forum all volunteer their time to endo@obgyn.net and we can not thank them enough. Following these simple rules we will make this a valuable resource in the ongoing struggle to increase understanding and awareness of endometriosis, help make lives easier, and insure continued support.
Everyone who posts should be treated with respect and kindness. Harrassment, nasty, demeaning, foul, profane or hurtful language is not accepted. Moderators may choose to not forward messages that they feel may contribute to this kind of negative environment.
We are all entitled to our own and different opinions. This forum is not a place for debate on treatments, personal lifestyle decisions, or moral or religious judgments.
Screen names such as your first name only are encouraged if you wish to not have your personal information or opinions available to anybody on the Internet. Email addresses may be anonymous.
Affiliations whether paid or volunteer with any medical organization, society, website/blog or user support group which are related to medical treatment, medical industry or endometriosis need to be included in your signature or indicated with every message. Affiliations are no problem but it needs to be disclosed.
All Questions and Answers to the Forum should be presented in a medical, supportive, and/or personal life experience format.
DO NOT keep repeating the same answer to everyone who posts a question. Although you may want to share something that you have found helpful try not to dominate the discussions with a single viewpoint.
This forum, endometriosiszone.org and obgyn.net are a place for both women and the medical professional. In such, it is not acceptable to identify individual doctors and medical professionals as bad. That may be your opinion, and a valid opinion, but this forum is not the place to post it and it will not be accepted. If you wish to speak negatively of the medical profession in general without identifying individuals by name that is fine.
Positive personal opinions (no hearsay) of medical professionals is accepted, we want to be able for example to allow women to recommend obgyns that they had a good experience with.
Sharing information about products or services is encouraged. Commercial mass sales, surveys and marketing posts are not acceptable unless approved by obgyn.net (a product of MediSpecialty.com, a for profit company). Indirect advertising, such as posting canned material simply to encourage people to go to your website, will not be accepted. If you wish to discuss advertising opportunities contact opportunities@obgyn.net.
Medications cannot be bought or sold through this forum.
Please do not ask more than two questions in the same post. If you want to ask more break them into separate messages with separate subject headings.
When replying to a post please cut out all but the relevant part of the post you are replying to. Posts that include pages of repeated text are very difficult to read and generally ignored.
Search the archives for your answer first before asking a question.
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Last Updated July 8, 2009
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