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Talksurgery takes your health and well-being seriously. As an informational site on elective surgery and cosmetic procedures, we know that you - our visitors - are giving us your trust. We believe that we have distinct responsibilities and obligations in order to earn and maintain this trust.
Whether you are seeking information on a cosmetic procedure or a healthcare professional, we, at Talksurgery, believe that certain duties and obligations must be expected of online health information providers. The following principles are the standards that we have set for ourselves to better meet your expectations of service and quality from us. This is our commitment to you:
- We adhere to a rigorous statement of editorial independence.
- If there is a sponsored section on our site, we provide full and complete disclosure of such sponsor and advertiser relationships. We only choose sponsored programs that add value to your experience.
- All content adheres to sound editorial principles and utilizes the provision of evidence-based content from peer-reviewed sources.
- All visitors can expect the utmost privacy as outlined in our published privacy policy.
- We only list board-certified doctors in our Doctor Locator.
- We NEVER recommend a procedure - it is up to you, our member, to decide for yourselves whether a procedure is right for you.
- Your email address and/or name NEVER appear on our site, unless you say so.
- We NEVER give or sell your name or email address or content to anyone.
- We NEVER post or release the identity of anyone in a Personal Story.
- This is a site for you. In the interest of fairness to you and our other users, please keep your contributions, whatever they may be, accurate, respectful and in keeping with the integrity of our site. We won't turn away a good story whether it has a happy ending or not, we just want the facts.
- We encourage you to consult your physician with any questions or concerns you may have regarding your decision to undergo a procedure. The information we provide is designed to support, not replace your doctor's advice.
- All users can expect active and professionally monitored online communities - bulletin boards, chat, live events - where they will be treated with compassion and respect.
- Talksurgery is a member of the Internet Health Coalition.
- All visitors can expect that general help and support queries will be answered by a professional within 7 days.
Questions, comments or concerns? Feel free to contact us at info@talksurgery.com. We welcome your input, whatever it might be and we will respond.
Statement of Editorial Independence
Talksurgery aims to be the most trusted source of personal accounts and information regarding elective surgery and cosmetic procedures on the Web. We are completely independent in order to ensure unbiased, objective, credible information. We offer our readers content that come directly from other users as well as top-notch health professionals.
To protect our visitors, we have devised a series of editorial guidelines to ensure that the advertiser does not influence the decisions we make about content and services provided on the site. Our guidelines can be briefly summarized as follows:
- All content adheres to sound editorial principles and utilizes the provision of evidence-based content from peer-reviewed sources.
- Unless clearly stated, all editorial content is unbiased and is free from influence of sponsors or advertisers.
- All advertiser-supplied content will be clearly labeled as such.
- All content is labeled as to source.
- Only advertisers that add value to our visitors are accepted; we do not advertise products that could be considered immoral.
- We will edit the content of our visitor's contributions for grammatical and spelling mistakes. For everyone's safety, we omit any and all names that might identify an individual, practitioner or company in the personal stories we feature.
- For the protection of our visitors, we reserve the right to edit profane and potentially libelous statements.
- We retain complete control over the written and graphical content and visitors' services presented on the site.
If you have any questions regarding the implementation of these guidelines,
or wish to learn more about our editorial or clinical review processes,
please e-mail feedback@talksurgery.com.
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Women experience greater overall weight gains and more notable weight fluctuations than men.
(Source: the Role of Weight Management in the Health of Women" by Sachiko T. St. Jeor, professor and director of Nutrition Education and Research at the University of Nevada, School of Medicine)
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