Social Media Disclaimer

Hello!

Thank you for your interest in our social media outlets. We encourage and appreciate your comments on Nebraska Spine Center 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.
When contributing to our sites it is vital that you stay on topic, are courteous and avoid making offensive comments. We monitor these sites and want to remind you 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. In other words, don’t rely on this forum for your final diagnosis and course of treatment.
Please 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. It should be known that once you post something online, there's the potential for thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of people to read your words and that the posts may be around for a long time in the future. That said, take advantage of the forum and thank you for sharing your story.

Now for the legal translation:
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. Content expressed on Nebraska Spine Center 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 Nebraska Spine Center 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.
While Nebraska Spine Center 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.
Nebraska Spine Center 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 replace consultation with a qualified physician or other health care provider. Be advised that your best course of action is to be seen by a health care provider rather than use the advice of an online blogger.
All links to other Web sites found linked from Nebraska Spine Center’s social media sites are provided as a service to readers, but such linkage does not constitute endorsement of those sites by Nebraska Spine Center, and as such we are not responsible for the content of external Web sites.
Please note that other participants may use your posted information beyond the control of Nebraska Spine Center. 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. When submitting content to any of Nebraska Spine Center's social media sites, you understand and acknowledge that this information is available to the public, and that Nebraska Spine Center may use this information for internal and external promotional purposes and fundraising purposes.