To All Forum Participants

[Philip1815]

Dear Forum Participants,

We are sorry we have had to dramatically limit the number of questions we allow on a daily basis in this forum due to  limitations of sponsorship funding. If your organization can sponsor this Forum, we and all others that visit here would be more than grateful. Please contact us.  

Unfortunately we must ask...

-Please do not post a question under someone else's question, it will not be answered.

-If you <B> really really </B> need <I>urgent</I> medical help the Web is not the place to be, please call your personal physician or your Emergency Medical Services as soon as possible.

-If you need a second opinion, we cannot recommend a better institution than The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center.

Again, sorry for the cutbacks :(


Regards,
Med Help International

[Carol]

PS! Have you stopped taking all questions aready? If not how many questions a day are you all currently able to answer?
Thank you :-)

[brian]

The cost of the site is minimal I am sure. It is sad that your facility finds an excelant means to disperse information, and advertise there services and have not budgeted it under that account. you charge us millions of dollars every year...and you still persist in asking for more from us. Dam few Dr.s aceually earn the money they are paid. Nothing pisses me off more then to see greed run amok. The other sad thing is you believe your oun rhetoric and do not even see how pathetic this sounds.

[abc]

I think it's very unfortunate to see this forum go. I have asked questions and the doctors have kindly answered here. I cannot afford very much, but I'll put up whatever I can to maintain this forum.


Thanks.

[Med Help-Phil]

Hi again everyone,

Just to re-iterate.. .we are NOT closing this forum, just limiting the number of questions per day. We *ARE* seeking support from major corporations for funding. As of this writing I do not think that we would be able to sustain the forum without corporate sponsors.

To date, the costs this forum have been underwritten from The Cleveland Clinic and we are *extremely* grateful for their generosity. Due to unforseen cutbacks at CCF this forum has taken a very large cut in funding.

Cindy and I (Co-Founders of Med Help) are very optimistic that this situation is going to be temporary :)

Regards to all,
Phil

[Maria]

This is really amazing--the breakdown of this site.  I am eternally grateful to all who have posted, and the doctors who have responded.  This was an incredible coming together--an absolute wealth of information.  So sorry to see it go.  I can't believe there are no takers for ads.  If I were a pharmaceutical company, this would be the site for me.  Or any number of other services and products.  But there is no way this will survive with just one or two questions a day.

[Sonya]

That sounds like a great idea. On AOL's "Ask A Doc", they ofen
refer you to medical information within their site such as Heart
Disease, Congestive Heart Failure and so on. The problem with that is, it is all very basic and limited information. Most patients that use this site are very educated and informed of their conditons. We look to this site for more indepth and detailed answers, not just general information that we have already been told. Also the Cleveland Doctors are very good at
refering us to the experts, not only at Cleveland but other places as well. These are the things we all appreciate that many
other sites do not offer. If you have to get advertising sponsorship, we will put up with flashing logos and click on them
to keep you in business. This site is too valuable to lose.
Keep the rhythm!