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- a. This Website is a paid advertisement for doctors featured by this site. This Website may contain or refer visitors to a limited list of licensed, certified physicians which is by no means an all inclusive list. We have only selected those physicians who have paid an advertising fee or who we have otherwise included in our list of physicians associated with our website.
While physicians advertising through this Website may be provided with patient referral services from our site, this Website does not accept referral fees from physicians advertising with this site in exchange for the referral of patients. Physicians advertising with this website are charged a flat fee.
Physicians advertising with our Website are strongly encouraged to adhere to their respective board mandated rules of professional conduct and codes of ethics, including without limitation, not using this Website to promote unnecessary services nor charging no more than their usual professional fees to patients or clients.
No physician advertising with or referred by this Website has any ownership interest in this Website.
- b. This Website is committed to upholding ethical advertising principles such as those established by various medical boards and associations like the American Medical Association, the Board of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, the American Board of Plastic Surgery, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. This means we make efforts to ensure that content found on this Website:
- § Is not false or likely to mislead
- § Does not knowingly omit facts
- § Is not likely to create unrealistic expectations in the minds of visitors to the Website
- § Does not minimize the magnitude and possible risks of surgeries described in the Website
- § Is not likely to recommend procedures to visitors of this Website that they might not have otherwise considered
- § Does not attempt to appeal to a visitor’s fears, anxieties, or emotional vulnerabilities in presenting information about surgical procedures
- § Does not contain guarantees of future success of procedures described in this Website and does not guarantee that satisfaction will result from the performance of the services of a physician advertising through this Website
- c. This Website takes efforts to ensure that testimonials found on this Website are only made by patients who actually received a Website-referred physician's services. Despite this, visitor or physician generated content on this website, while moderated, is not and cannot be vetted for accuracy or truthfulness. Not all patient or physician testimonials found on this Website represent the experience that is typical of what other potential patients may experience. Testimonials on this Website regarding a particular physician’s skills or the quality of medical services may not reflect the actual results that a visitor to this Website may experience from that physician. A representation that a doctor has cured or successfully treated many cases involving a specific issue does not mean that the physician can guarantee a certain result.
- d. Photographs of people used on this Website may not be photos of patients who have undergone procedures described herein. Wherever possible, this Website will attempt to use only photos of patients who have actually received treatments that their images are being used to advertise. In the event that this Website uses the image of a non-patient model, we will make reasonably attempts to state that the photo used is of a non-patient model. Wherever reasonably possibly, this Website will use images that provide a reasonable indication of typical results of the advertised procedure. Wherever possible, this Websites uses reasonable efforts to ensure that “before and after” photos, if used, are not misleading and provide a reasonable representation of typical results of an advertised procedure.
This Website is committed to respecting the confidentiality and privacy of patients. We take reasonable efforts to ensure that all photos of patients used herein, which do not mask the identity of the patient, are used with full consent and knowledge of the patient in question.
Physicians working with our Website are encouraged to adhere to the strictest professional and legal standards concerning the use of patient-specific information. We encourage all physicians working with our our Website to adopt the highest level of security, privacy and confidentiality safeguards possible to protect the privacy of their patients.
- e. Visitors to this Website may elect to submit their name, telephone number, email address and other contact information with our site in order to receive certain additional information. By completing and submitting a form requesting more information you are expressly electing to be contacted by our Website or a physician advertising with our Website.
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It is against the policy of our Website to directly solicit visitors to our site, by email, telephone or otherwise, without visitors expressly requesting they be contacted by us or a physician advertising through our website.
- f. This Website does not take responsibility for representations made by doctors on this site. Any claim of licensure, board-certification or other credentials made by a physician advertising on this Website must be verified by the visitor personally as this Website does not guarantee the accuracy or veracity of any such representations.