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Group
Policy
Group Website
Introduction
Objectives
Topics
of ACMA Patient Group
Membership
Exit
Policy -- How to Leave the Group
Previous
Group Messages
Privacy
Policy
Tips
for Privacy
How
to Reply a Group Email
Steps
to
join the Group
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Introduction
ACMA
Patient Group is a
membership patient support group administered by American Chinese Medicine Association (ACMA)
and the ACMA
Patient Association.
This group is a part of the ACMA
Patient Association because many ACMA patients are
not in the group. Some of them do not have access to computer or
internet. Some of them are too busy to be overloaded
by group discussion messages.
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Objectives
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The
ACMA Patient Group is to
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(1)
provide ACMA patient supports;
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(2)
serve as a forum for ACMA patients to discuss and address issues, as well as
to exchange ideas of interests to most patients;
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(3)
serve as a platform for ACMA to publish information on issues of interests to most
patients.
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Membership
All
ACMA patients are qualified to be a group member. There is no membership fee for ACMA patients to join this group.
All members are welcome to
participate in the group discussions and activities as long as their
messages are of interests to other group members and are of help to the
entire group activities.
Similar to other professional groups, this group is governed by laws,
netiquette, and other applicable rules and regulations, etc.
ACMA will not censor or edit group messages. Everyone is solely responsible for the message he/she sends to the group.
To protect your privacy, please do not send your
messages to the entire group if
your messages contain your personal and private information. Please go
to the Tips for Privacy to get more
information on how to protect your privacy.
Please go to
How
to Reply a Group Email for
more information on how to avoid sending messages to entire group by
accident.
For
the group topics, please go to Topics
of ACMA Patient Group.
If
you are not interested in the group topics, you may leave the group by following
the steps at Exit
Policy -- How to Leave the Group.
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Privacy
Policy
(1) Patients are free to discuss
and share their own conditions and private information in the group.
(2)
ACMA neither encourages nor discourages a patient to reveal his/her disease
conditions at the group. It is a patient's choice.
(3)
If a patient has not revealed his/her disease at the group, to protect patient's privacy, ACMA will not
mention
patient's private information in the
group without obtaining the patient's written permission.
(4)
If ACMA needs to address a case report, all patient's private information
will be removed from the case report. Only medically related
information will be retained in the case report.
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Tips
for Privacy
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Patient Group employs Yahoo Group settings. In Yahoo Group
settings, when a group member reply to a group message, the
"Reply" message may go to the entire group rather than the
sender alone. Following is a method to check and make sure whether your
"Reply" message will be directed to the entire group or
not:
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(1)
If the email address after "To:" is
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ACMAPatientGroup@yahoogroups.com ,
your message will be distributed to the entire group;
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(2)
If the email address after "To:" is an individual email address,
your message will be directed to the individual only.
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How to Reply a Group
Email
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(1) If you click "Reply" (not "Reply All") to a group message, your message will be sent to entire group.
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(2) If you do not want to send a message to the entire group, please do not
click "Reply" to group messages. You may create (initiate) a new email rather than clicking "Reply" to avoid sending message to the entire group.
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For
more information on this issue, please go to Tips
for Privacy.
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Steps to
join the Group If
you are an ACMA patient, please click here: Steps
to Apply for a Full Membership.
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Exit Policy -- How
to Leave the Group
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The ACMA Patient Group adopts the Yahoo Group
format. Yahoo Group is a forum-like internet group
designed for specialized group discussions. Group members
related to the discussions find it very useful.
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However, during
group discussions, the message traffic could be very high, which may
not suit for every group members. If you do not want to be overloaded by the
high traffic group discussion messages, please leave the group by following the
steps below:
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(1) Initial a new email;
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(2) Put the following email address after the "To:" in your email:
info@americanchinesemedicineassociation.org
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(3) Put "Unsubscribe" in the "Subject:" section of your email.
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No
reason or explanation is needed. You
will be removed from the group as soon as your request has been processed.
Related
Links:
ACMA Patient
Association
Letters
from Patients
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