While stepwards.com is intended to help trainees improve their clinical thinking skills, it is important to realize that it is NOT meant to be used as a diagnostic tool and should not be relied upon in isolation for diagnosing or treating patients. When providing medical care it is important to ALWAYS take the entire context of the patient under serious consideration in order to provide the best medical care possible. While educational resources (like stepwards.com) are effective in teaching the general presentations of certain disease processes, it is important to appreciate that uncommon presentations also exist that may not be covered in these resources. Stepwards.com aims to simplify topics and in certain instances this may warrant for the reader to look to further resources to expound upon the educational foundation they gained by reading the articles of stepwards.com.
Stepwards.com (and by extension any author that has contributed to the site) is not liable for any medical errors made by the use of its content. While the writers of stepwards.com work hard to minimize the number of errors within each article, they acknowledges that errors likely will always exist (even if on a small scale). Whats more, the nature of medicine is such that it is always evolving, and new discoveries may challenge/invalidate some of the content found on stepwards.com. While we will work hard to keep this site up to date, it is not possible to necessarily always provide the most current understanding of each disease process.
Additioinally while many of the images utilized by stepwards.com are original, others have been shared from other websites and we work hard to only utilize non-original images that are within the public domain. as well as images that are allowed to be used for non-commercial usage, such as materials which fall under the Fair Use Act. Stepwards.com provides all its content for free, (no ads, no subscriptions) and no revenue is generated by this website (either directly or indirectly). We beleive medial information/education should have no financial barrier!
To this effect others may use any original content made by Stepwards.com for the purpose of education (provided there is no finaincial restriction to the content, which includes subscription based academid journals). For any non-original materials we have worked hard to cite the original source/creator so that appropriate credit can be given (so these individuals should be contacted if these images are to be re-purposed). Similarly, if the licenscing/copyright of any work we have featured on this website has changed since our initial usage of the image (and no longer is within public domain/is no longer allowed to be used for non-commercial usage) please contact us immediately so we can remove said content.