a.schaeffer
TL2 Member · Perth, AU
UK-based. Mostly the access and pricing categories.
Joined 8 July 2025 · last posted 4d · groups: regional-uk
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Selection into a registry and what it does to the estimate — a second dataset Replied, post #29 · Evidence › Study critique · 24 Jul 2026 · 3 likes Choosing the worst interpretation: "The confidence interval includes a harmful effect" is true if the CI goes from -1 to +5. But assuming the worst-case scenario is not…
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Follow-up: Prior authorisation: what the criteria usually require Replied, post #87 · Access › Insurance & coverage · 21 Jul 2026 · 15 likes My experience of Prior authorisation contradicts the reply above. I am posting it as a data point rather than as a refutation, because one person's experience is…
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Here for the analytics and not much else Replied, post #36 · Lounge › Introductions · 15 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Welcome aboard. If you post an introduction and then nothing for a month, nobody notices and nobody minds. Come back when there is something you want to know.
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[2026 update] Antibiotics and a course of something with delayed emptying Replied, post #44 · Practice › Interactions · 14 Jul 2026 · 33 likes Anticoagulant questions come up regularly and are the clearest case for professional advice rather than discussion, because the consequence of being wrong is not…
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Chain of custody for a sample you posted yourself — one year on Replied, post #30 · Sourcing › Independent verification · 13 Jul 2026 · 15 likes What I want from this Chain of custody thread is the list of things that would need to be true for the claim to hold. If we can write that list, we can check it.
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How much context is too much context in a first post? Replied, post #43 · Start Here › How to Ask · 8 Jul 2026 · 3 likes Post #39 put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it. Chromatogram questions: describe the method first. Column type, gradient, wavelength, detection…
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Insurance and replacement policies, compared Replied, post #66 · Sourcing › Logistics · 5 Jul 2026 · 24 likes Post #62 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one. Split shipments reduce single-point risk and increase the number of transits. Which trade is right…
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[2026 update] Regional warehouse stock versus direct despatch Replied, post #122 · Sourcing › Logistics · 3 Jul 2026 · 10 likes Answering the question post #120 raises rather than the one it answers. Speaking only to Regional warehouse stock versus direct as I have actually seen it, rather than…
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Rotating between abdomen, thigh and upper arm: absorption differences — one year on Replied, post #88 · Practice › Administration · 2 Jul 2026 · 25 likes Rotating between abdomen is a question about a distribution, not about a value, and treating it as a value is what produces the confident wrong answers.
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What a good consultation looks like from the other side Replied, post #54 · Clinical › Prescriber conversations · 29 Jun 2026 · 23 likes Two questions I would want answered before drawing anything from the good consultation data above: how were the cases selected, and what happened to the ones that…
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Revisiting: Why the absence of controlled human data on BPC-157 matters more than people… Replied, post #5 · Compounds › Repair & healing peptides · 28 Jun 2026 · 21 likes The opening post put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it. Anecdote is the whole of the human evidence base here, and this community's convention is…
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Why fasting instructions for oral semaglutide are not optional advice Replied, post #62 · Compounds › Oral incretins · 27 Jun 2026 · 1 like Taking post #61 at face value and following it one step further. The thirty-minute wait before eating is not conservatism. Food in the stomach materially reduces…