The Meniere's Disease
Information Center (MDIC) is this website. This website is
maintained by lay individuals who are mere patients, and who are not
medical professionals. For examination, diagnosis, and treatment, you
should consult licensed and qualified medical professionals. The
information and links at this site are provided as is and at your own
risk. None of the information or links at this site is warranted in
any manner, including (but not limited to) accuracy, reliability,
timeliness, and completeness.
Mission
Our mission is to provide
the single most accurate, comprehensive, understandable, candid, and
unbiased site on the Internet for general
information about Meniere's Disease, cited to authoritative sources. Our
objective is to inform you and thereby empower you. We hope that our
site helps to make this always confusing disease a bit more
understandable. Copyright and Permissions
This entire site is and always has
been copyrighted and all rights are and always have been reserved.
All copying, including (but not
limited to) websites, bulletin boards, forums, and blogs, is and always
has been prohibited.
If you would like to republish any of
the material on this website, whole or in part, with or without
attribution, with or without profit, you must first obtain a grant of
our permission in a formal legal contract written and signed on paper
with all parties represented by legal counsel.
All grants of copyright permissions,
whole or in part, with or without attribution, with or without profit,
will require advance payment of substantial fees and royalties.
To inquire further about copyright
permissions, have your legal counsel email to us at the address below a
formal legal description of the copyright permission sought and a formal
legal description of the substantial fees and royalties that you propose
to pay in advance.
Ownership and Funding
The Meniere's Disease Information Center (MDIC)
is this website. This website is privately owned and privately
funded by lay individuals who are mere patients, and who are not medical
professionals. We do not host advertising. We do not solicit
or accept donations for our operations. We do not engage in "reciprocal linking"
or "exchange
linking." We receive no revenue of any kind from the search
engines to which we link, freefind.com and google.com. We may
receive substantial fees and royalties in exchange for such copyright permissions as we may grant. We
receive no other revenue or funding. Thus, we are unbiased by
conflicts of interest.
Privacy
We do not collect personal
information. If you send us a question
(see below), we may answer your question on our blog. Errors
We hate errors;
if you find any errors on this website, including
information errors, typos, grammatical errors, broken links, and unclear
wording, please let us know at the email address below. Media Inquiries
We understand media deadlines, and we
welcome and promptly reply to bona fide media email inquiries. The
reply email address must be a verifiable bona fide media source.
Please direct media inquiries to the email address below.
We are not medical
professionals and we cannot provide medical advice.
We cannot answer
questions about *your* Meniere's Disease.
We cannot tell you
whether your symptoms "sound like" Meniere's Disease.
Meniere's Disease is
NOT diagnosed by its symptoms; it is diagnosed by a differential
diagnosis of its symptoms. See our symptoms page and our diagnosis pagewithmimics. Symptoms
that "sound like" Meniere's Disease also "sound like" many other
diseases and conditions that have the same symptoms as Meniere's
Disease.
For examination,
diagnosis, and treatment, you should consult licensed and qualified
medical professionals.
If you need help in
finding a doctor, we have resources for you at our doctors page.
We CAN provide general information
(not medical advice) in response to your questions about Meniere's Disease.
Well over 99% of the
questions about Meniere's Disease that we receive are already
answered (1) on this website or (2) on our blog. (Really!)
Be sure to use our search links
that appear at the top of each page of our website and our website site map.
If your question is truly not
already answered on our website, visit our blog and be
sure to use the search function there.
If your question is truly not already
answered here, and it is truly not already answered on our
blog --
We will be HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY
to provide general information (not medical advice) in response to
your question about Meniere's Disease.
Please do not include any personal
identifying information, as we have no need for it.
We may answer your question on our
blog, but we
won't post your email address.
Class
assignments.
In view of the extensive resources already posted at our website, and
the time limitations of our volunteers, we are unable to reply to
students seeking assistance with class assignments, but we wish them
well.
Regular
(snail) mail. We are unable to reply to requests for
information to be sent by regular (snail) mail. All of our
information is online at this website. We have no printed material
to send. We have an international constituency, and we try to make
all of our information easily, quickly, and economically accessible to
patients worldwide via this website.
Copyright requests (permissions).
See the copyright information above.
Sound file
complaints.
From time to time we play a sound file for the benefit of
those who can still hear. Occasionally, a visitor who is
hypersensitive to sound will complain. If you are hypersensitive
to sound and you must complain about our sound file, please first
explain why you don't mute your computer speakers before you surf the
Internet.
Feedback is welcome.Your
feedback, comments, suggestions, and criticism are important to us
(really!); please let us hear from you, using the email
address below.
Listings on the Doctors Page. We don't endorse, recommend, or
refer to physicians for the simple reason that we have no particular
competence to do so. Facilities are listed on our Doctors Page simply because they have
websites (or other Internet links) that connect them with the treatment
of Meniere's Disease. U.S. doctors, hospitals, and clinics:
to be listed, simply provide us with the Internet link that connects you
with the treatment of Meniere's Disease. There is no charge. Send an
email to us at the address below.
Our email address is
subject to periodic change to deter spam.
Always check this page for our latest email address.
Email only as described in the rules above may be directed to
Email that is not within these
rules will necessarily be ignored.
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