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- Disclaimers and limitations of liability
- General disclaimers
- Description or reference to a product or publication does not imply endorsement of that product or publication, unless it is owned by Medicine Cases and in which case it is subject to the disclaimers limitations of liability herein and within any licence or other agreement with you the latter of which shall prevail in the event of a conflict. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the material and information displayed on our websites is provided “as is” without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to accuracy.
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- Additional product specific disclaimers
- Emergency Medicine Cases is intended for use by licensed medical health professionals. You are responsible for your decisions on diagnosis, treatment and follow up for a patient, or from choosing or not choosing specific treatments based on this. The content does not, provide any conclusive check lists, endorse drugs, diagnose patients, or recommend therapy. Users should use their professional judgement in using Medicine Cases content, which is done at their own risk. They should always check and ensure that in each situation at the point of care they are qualified to consult and/or treat and/or prescribe at the point of care of a patient. Categories presented indicate a judgement about the evidence and strength of evidence available to our authors prior to publication and the relevant importance of benefit and harms. Medicine Cases relies on its authors to confirm the accuracy of the information presented to prescribe generally accepted practices.
- Users should be aware that professionals in the field may have different opinions. Because of this fact and because of regular advances in medical research and the possibility of human error, users should independently verify specified diagnosis methods, evidence, treatments, follow up, drugs and any contraindications or side effects including via manufacturers guidance. Also, the categories and information do not indicate whether a particular diagnosis, evidence, treatment and/or follow up is generally appropriate or whether it is up to date and suitable for a particular individual. Please also note that information whilst not warranted to be accurate, is generally updated annually, so may be out of date. Ultimately it is the User’s responsibility to make your own professional judgements, so to appropriately advise and treat yourself or your patients.
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- General disclaimers
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- Alteration of Service or Amendments to the Conditions
We reserve the right to make changes to our website, policies, and these terms and conditions at any time. You will be subject to the general policies and conditions in force at the time that you use the website or that you order goods from us, unless any change to those policies or these conditions is required to be made by law or government authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you). If any of these conditions are deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition will be deemed severable and the closest enforceable substitute (if possible) will be included and the excluded clause will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining conditions.
- Events beyond our reasonable control
We will not be held responsible for any delay or failure to comply with our obligations under these conditions if the delay or failure arises from any cause which is beyond our reasonable control including reasons of Force Majeure which shall include any default due to an act of God, war, or threatened war, act of terrorism or threatened act of terrorism, strike, lockout, industrial action, health epidemic or pandemic, fire, flood, drought, tempest or other event beyond the control of either party. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.
- Waiver
If you breach these conditions and we take no action, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies in any other situation where you breach these conditions.
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- Third Party Rights Exclusion
No party, who is not party to any contract which may be entered into by us, may enforce the terms of that contract and therefore we hereby exclude the operation of the Contracts
- Governing law and jurisdiction
To the fullest extent permitted by law, this Agreement will be governed by the laws of Ontario Canada and shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Ontario Canada whose courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction, unless as at the date of formation of this Agreement either i) an English judgement could not be enforced in the Subscriber’s stated country location; or ii) it would take six months or more for Medicine Cases to enforce an English judgement in the subscriber’s stated country location, then it is hereby agreed that this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the subscriber’s stated country (or state if applicable) and their courts shall have jurisdiction. Notwithstanding any of the above, this clause is governed by the laws of Ontario Canada.