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Hi everyone. Although it is with a heavy heart, I have decided to temporarily stop writing in my blog or anywhere for that matter at least for the next few weeks or maybe even permanently. A few days ago, I found out that someone from Egypt has been copy-pasting all the contents of my blog to his blog. He edits it to remove all reference to me as well as any links that will identify me as the author. In other words, he has passed off my works as his.

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I have decided to stop writing on this topic in my blog. It seems there is a blog called usmle.egmedicine.com who is not only copying my work, but is editing it to eliminate all references I have to any of my other posts. Not only does he not have the courtesy to ask for permission to republish the contents of my blog, neither does he give any author attribution, he even edited it to erase all references to me or my blog. I believe that is not only rude and discourteous it is pure piracy. The owner of egmedicine is registered as

Dr Mohamed Fouad Fakhreldeen
almahalla
almahalla alkobra, algharbia 31911
Egypt

This has made me lose faith in the honesty and fairness of people who I am trying to help. Doctors who would do this are not doctors worthy of the profession. I’ve seen other people copy my work, either they ask permission from me first or state that it was written by askdoc. This guy, I don’t know how to describe him.

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