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We encourage your comments on Sentara/Optima Health blogs and social media sites, and hope you will join the discussions. We can't respond to every comment, particularly those that deal with individual medical cases and issues. We review comments before they're posted, and those that are off-topic, pertain to personal medical questions or promote a commercial product generally won't be published. We also expect a basic level of civility; disagreements are fine, but mutual respect is a must, and profanity or abusive language is out-of-bounds.

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1. Post material that infringes on the rights of any third party, including intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights.

2. Post material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, racially, ethically or sexually hateful or offensive, or embarrassing to any other person or entity as determined by Sentara/Optima Health in its sole discretion.

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