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Licensed medical practitioner: This term applies to individual who has valid and updated license to practice medicine in India (taking into account all the relevant licensing rules applicable at the central and state government level at any applicable time). The individual in question shall herein and after be named as doctor.
Valid license to practice and scope: The doctor bears the sole responsibility for ensuring his/her continuous fitness to practice. The fitness or license to practice will be determined by the relevant government authority at central and state level. The user is solely responsible to ensure that she/he practices within the scope of one’s practice.
The website: Unless mentioned otherwise the term ‘the website’ applies to all that is contained within www.guidetreatments.com or its affiliates and subsidiaries.
Knowledge and experience: By using this website the end user (doctor) agrees that she/he possesses all the relevant information, skills and experience in all aspects of patient care. The doctor is hereby understood to have applied all necessary care and precautions in interpreting patient relevant information and that is contained in www.guidetreatments.com or its affiliates and subsidiaries.
Systems and clinical conditions: The systems and clinical conditions provided within www.guidetreatments.com are at the sole discretion of the website and its editorial team and are subject to change. The clinical conditions are aligned to the most appropriate system and the end user may find one condition under two systems if the editorial team finds it appropriate.
Symptoms: All that is mentioned by the patient (including his/her relatives or witnesses) is considered as symptoms. The doctor is solely responsible to ensure that he/she understands the symptoms in its correct form, use the correct term and derive relevant significance.
Signs: www.guidetreatments.com does not take any legal responsibility for capability of the doctor in understanding signs presented by the patient.
Diagnosis: In case where the doctor uses guidelines relating to any diagnosis, it is presumed that the doctor has taken all due diligence in arriving at the most appropriate diagnosis. The doctor shall consider all plausible differential diagnoses before initiating treatments. www.guidetreatments.com does not take any responsibility for misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis or any effects there upon.
Treatment initiation: www.guidetreatments.com provides guidelines towards initiation and maintenance of therapies. All recommendations are based on applicable medical evidence and market factors. It remains the doctor’s sole responsibility to apply due diligence in initiating and monitoring suggested therapies. www.guidetreatments.com shall bear no responsibility for any side-effects encountered due to initiation and maintenance of therapies. As with standard expected care, the doctor is solely responsible to identify risks of side-effects, various drug interactions and its management. The doctor should use her/his sole discretion in applying guideline based suggestions (in totality or partially) to individual patients or to modify any guideline on a case by case basis.
Brand names and MRP: All the brand names and maximum recommended price contained herewith are for suggestive purpose only and under sole ownership of its producers and/or its distributors. The end user acknowledges that the brands suggested are sponsored links by the manufacturer/marketer. The treating doctor maintains sole responsibility and decision about prescribing drugs by brand names. It is beyond the scope of the website to guarantee or monitor availability of the brands at all times and hence doctor shall accept the obligation to change brand names as determined by availability of medicines at local level.
Prescription methods: The advice given in www.guidetreatments.com is for purpose of guidance. The doctor shall use his/her preference about the drug formulation, administration, prescribing method and duration of treatment.
Follow up: www.guidetreatments.com does not provide any guidance for follow up of patients. This is solely at the discretion of the practicing doctor.
General advice: The general advice given herewith is for guidance purpose only. www.guidetreatments.com does not claim to cover all aspects of general advice given to the patients.
Investigations: The doctor responsible shall apply due diligence and medical knowledge in recommending investigations suggested within www.guidetreatments.com. The website and its creators do not take any responsibility for misinterpretation of investigative approach nor in its interpretation.
Referral: Where possible, www.guidetreatments.com shall provide guidance to where a patient could be referred. This is based on the most relevant and applicability of guidelines at any given time. The decision to refer is solely decided between the doctor and his/her patient. www.guidetreatments.com does not endorse any specific individual or organisation for referral purpose.
Ineffective treatment: The said website intends to provide guidance for various medical treatments. As such the website and the information contained herewith cannot be used as evidence towards or against ineffective treatments or as against medical negligence. The doctor in charge is expected to take due diligence in treating patients as he or she would be expected without the help or support of the said website.
Patient complaints and liability: Pursuant to the clauses mentioned above; the licensed medical practitioner will be the sole person to address patient complaints. www.guidetreatments.com shall bear no responsibility in addressing any patient care & outcome related complaints and shall not be liable under any circumstances for any clinical, legal, ethical or financial outcomes under any jurisdictions.
End user feedback: www.guidetreatments.com invites any feedbacks or complaints by any doctor regarding objectionable content or inadvertent outcomes for improving the scope of providing guidelines in the future. The website maintains the sole right to acknowledge and/or accept feedbacks or complaints. This will be done after weighing up all the risks and benefits and due diligence.
Changes to content: www.guidetreatments.com reserves the right to add, amend or edit existing guidelines and other recommendations as per available information at any time.
Patient confidentiality: www.guidetreatments.com will never ask to reveal patient confidentiality at any time whatsoever. The end user shall not provide any patient relevant information whilst giving feedback to the website.
Aim of the website: The overarching aim of the website is to provide prompts to licensed medical practitioner (doctor) in arriving at appropriate decisions for treating certain medical conditions. The website by no means should be considered as the sole source of all healthcare related information. The website does not guarantee the completeness of the information contained herewith. The doctor using the information herewith shall take all adequate precautions in ensuring the advice given to the patient is relevant and safe at all times.
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Copyright: The entire information, function and user interface is solely copyrighted to its rightful owners. The end user hereby agrees to not create any copies or imitations of any information, functionality or layout contained herewith. Any such efforts of any extent are liable under Copyright act and all the design effects such as font, flowcharts are copyrighted and so are the updated functions of the said website.
Severability: The severability clause applies to our terms of use and as such each aspect of terms of use is independent of another. Should one of the clauses contained herewith is deemed invalid or unforce-able, the rest of the clauses still apply and will be deemed valid.