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We welcome comments that facilitate communication on topics concerning Brooke Army Medical Center. We reserve the right to determine what comments violate our policy and will remove posts that violate it. User comments do not necessarily reflect the opinion of BAMC, the Department of Defense, or the United States. Our social media activities are not intended to act as an alternative to visiting your doctor or contacting your local facility. We do not include any personal health information (PHI) on our social media networks or MTF websites, and PHI will be removed if posted by a user. If you have an urgent health issue or concern, please contact your primary care provider or patient advocate. (MTF Locator: http://www.tricare.mil/mtf/)
Please remember, the information you post online is public. To protect your own privacy and the privacy of others, do not include personally identifiable information (PII) such as Social Security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, or e-mail addresses in the body of your comment. Please observe the following guidelines or your comments will be subject to removal:
- No classified information or sensitive military content
- No copyright protected material
- No impersonations
- No information that violates privacy or operational security (OPSEC)
- No hateful, violent, or offensive content
- No endorsements and promotions
- No personal attacks
- No po*******hy or sexual content
- No off-topic remarks
- No spam/malicious code
- Any other content that could put the United States or DoD at risk
Expression of views inconsistent with official DoD, Department of the Army or OTSG/MEDCOM policy to the extent they are in conflict with good order, morale, discipline and mission accomplishment are subject to removal. Additionally, comments will be removed at our discretion if they are deemed to be:
* defamatory, or otherwise unlawful, content that violates laws regarding harassment, discrimination, privacy or contempt
* intentionally false or misleading
* abusive, offensive, insulting, or aggressive. Name-calling, sexism and racial vilification will not be tolerated under any circumstances
* off-topic, wilfully ignorant or repetitious to the point where a single commenter is deliberately dominating the conversation
* compromising the privacy of oneself, other contributors, or of BAMC patients or staff, or containing inappropriate personal information
* an infringement of copyright or other intellectual property rights
* seeking to endorse commercial products or activities or to solicit business
* deliberate provocation of other community members
Any violation of the above can result in accounts being banned immediately. As a healthcare institution it is our responsibility to ensure medically sound and scientifically accurate information on COVID-19 and its vaccines on our digital and social media platforms. In accordance with that responsibility and Facebook’s Community Guidelines, we reserve the right to remove posts or comments that do not conform to our guidance. This includes, but is not limited to misinformation that goes against the advice of medical professionals and peer-reviewed studies. If you have a question, please feel free to ask and we will respond. We recognize that the web is a 24/7 medium, and your comments are welcome at any time. However, given the need to manage federal resources, moderating and posting of comments will occur during regular business hours Monday through Friday. Comments and messages submitted after hours or on weekends will be read and responded to as early as possible the next business day. Members of the media are asked to send questions to the appropriate office of public affairs through their normal channels and to refrain from submitting questions as comments. These comments are subject to removal.
