Updated webpage?

October 23, 2010 By

DEAR DR. GOTT: Your webpage was last updated Dec. 28, 2009. Any chance that you will bring it up-to-date? I read your column in my local newspaper.

DEAR READER: The website (www.AskDrGottMD.com) is updated six days a week. Tuesday through Sunday, a new column appears online. The date that you are seeing (at the bottom right corner), is the date that the webpage layout was last updated. Just below the title of the columns, there appears a date. This is the date that the column was posted to the website (or when it appeared in print in the case of the classic columns), and you will find that it is current.

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Will the real Dr. Gott please stand up?

September 14, 2010 By

DEAR DR. GOTT: Someone is using your name and photo to earn income at the website www.dr-gott.com. It is not clear until you get to their contact page that it’s not your official site. You can see by looking at the posts that people think they are sending you a message. You may not want to spend a lot of money going after these people, but it is very illegal for them to use your photo without your permission. A letter from your lawyer demanding that they remove your photo and state in large type on their home page that it is not your official site would be a great service to your readers and also protect your privacy and legal rights.

DEAR READER: Unfortunately, for every website that uses my name and photo that I take action against, there are 12 more behind it waiting to take its place.
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