This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
There is: the practice category, and the calculators, both written for exactly that. Nothing there assumes chemistry, and the maintained documents show their working so you can check them by hand.
Reading it back, the second half matters more than the first.
Welcome. Nobody will mind you asking something basic. The people most likely to answer are the ones who remember not knowing it.
I would want to see it done twice before believing it once.
Glad to see another member from outside the usual regions. The access and regional categories are thin for anywhere that is not the UK, EU or North America, and a dated first-hand account is worth more than any summary.
Six months of lurking, finally posting. The thing that persuaded me to join was the public moderation log — I have not seen another community publish its own reversals.
Community culture: introductions give you a sense of who is here. Reading a few introduces you to the people and the tone of the community.
Clinician voices are genuinely welcome and are asked to be explicit about the line. Several members here say plainly in every post that they are describing general information and not advising anybody, and nobody finds that tedious.
That is the practical version. The rigorous version is longer and says the same thing.
Nice to meet you. Say what you are interested in rather than what you do, if you would rather — plenty of people here are anonymous about their background and it costs them nothing.
I would hold that lightly until someone with a larger sample weighs in.
Introducing myself: analytical background, no clinical background, here mostly to read the sourcing and analytics categories. I will ask more than I answer for a while.
Welcome: the response to introductions is usually welcome. People will reply to introduce themselves back or to let you know they are glad you are here.
Welcome. The short version of the culture: be specific, date everything, and say when you are guessing. That is genuinely the whole of it.
I would call that likely rather than established.
Introductions are also a reasonable place to say what you are hoping to find, because somebody will usually know whether it exists here already.
None of the above is medical advice and I am not qualified to give any.
Good to have another set of eyes on the wiki posts. Community wiki editing is open at trust level three and the queue of small corrections is permanently longer than the people fixing them.
Welcome from staff. Nothing is required of you here — no posting quota, no introduction, no declaration of background. The only thing we ask is that a claim about a supplier arrives with the evidence attached.
Adding it because I spent an afternoon working it out and nobody should have to twice.
Appreciated. The plain phrasing does more work here than a longer post would.
There is: the practice category, and the calculators, both written for exactly that. Nothing there assumes chemistry, and the maintained documents show their working so you can check them by hand.
Privacy: share only what you are comfortable making permanent and public. An introduction is archived and searchable; do not include information you will later regret posting.
Following up: if you introduce yourself and someone asks a follow-up question, you can reply here or in a direct message depending on what feels right.
That distinction has done more work for me than anything else in this category.
No spam: introductions are not a place to advertise commercial products or services. That is a rules violation.
Community culture: introductions give you a sense of who is here. Reading a few introduces you to the people and the tone of the community.
I am confident about the direction and much less about the magnitude.
Clinician voices are genuinely welcome and are asked to be explicit about the line. Several members here say plainly in every post that they are describing general information and not advising anybody, and nobody finds that tedious.
If that is already documented somewhere, ignore me and link it.