This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
If your question has a deadline — a parcel in transit, a delivery you have to accept or refuse — say so. People answer differently when there is a clock on it.
No disagreement from me. Posting only so the question does not look ignored.
Units. Everything needs units. This is why we ask every single time. I have seen the same arithmetic done three different ways depending on whether the person was thinking mg/mL or mg/dose or something else entirely. Stating the units makes that impossible.
I would rather say I do not know than round it up to an answer.
Post #61 put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it.
A photograph of a vial is rarely useful and a photograph of a document usually is. Redact the identifiers before you post either.
I would hold that lightly until someone with a larger sample weighs in.
Avoid "any advice?" at the end. It is so generic that people do not know which part of the post it refers to. Pick the specific part and ask that specific question instead.
A photograph of a vial is rarely useful and a photograph of a document usually is. Redact the identifiers before you post either.
If that is already documented somewhere, ignore me and link it.
Taking post #66 at face value and following it one step further.
Staff note on titles, since it comes up. We retitle topics fairly often, always leaving the original in the first post and always logging it. It is not a criticism of the wording — it is that a title is how somebody finds this in eighteen months.
That distinction has done more work for me than anything else in this category.
Post #64 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.
Five questions in one post gets you one answer: the easiest one, usually not the one you needed most. Post them separately or pick the one that depends on the others least and ask that one first.
Caveat: everything above assumes the paperwork is what it says it is.
Adding the measurement that post #66 says would settle it.
Arithmetic questions: write out the steps. "I have a 10 mg vial, I added 2 mL, I want a 0.25 mg dose, and I get this number for the syringe mark" is answerable. "How many units" is not.
Not disagreeing with anyone above, just adding the bit I keep having to look up.
Post #68 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.
Disagreeing with an answer you got: cite what you disagree with, say what contradicts it, and ask which one holds. Do not open with "I think you are wrong". Lead with the evidence.
Genuinely open to being wrong about this one.
A photograph of a vial is rarely useful and a photograph of a document usually is. Redact the identifiers before you post either.
This is the version I would want a new member to read first.
Staff note on titles, since it comes up. We retitle topics fairly often, always leaving the original in the first post and always logging it. It is not a criticism of the wording — it is that a title is how somebody finds this in eighteen months.
Post #71 put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it.
Lab result questions: state the result, the reference interval, and what else is on the same panel. A single flag on a single draw is usually uninformative without context.
Say what you have already ruled out. "It is not the diluent because I tried a second vial from a different box" saves three replies suggesting the diluent.
The rule of thumb is fine; the edge cases are where it earns its keep.
This is the answer, and the reason it is the answer is the more useful part.
Taking post #75 at face value and following it one step further.
Avoid "any advice?" at the end. It is so generic that people do not know which part of the post it refers to. Pick the specific part and ask that specific question instead.
On post #75 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.
Nobody minds being asked to explain a term. The people who use them most are the quickest to define them, and a question that stops to ask is usually a question that gets a better answer.
On balance I think that is right, and I would not bet much on it.
Picking up post #79: that is the part I would want checked first.
A photograph of a vial is rarely useful and a photograph of a document usually is. Redact the identifiers before you post either.
Not the whole picture, but the part of it I can speak to.
Post the arithmetic you already did. Half the questions here are answered by someone spotting which line of your working is wrong, and that is impossible if you only give the answer you got.
A guess, clearly labelled as one.
Worth separating two things that post #78 runs together.
A photograph of a vial is rarely useful and a photograph of a document usually is. Redact the identifiers before you post either.
Happy to be corrected if someone holds better data than mine.
If you are asking about a document, quote the exact wording of the line you are asking about. Paraphrasing a specification is how a discussion ends up about a document nobody has read.
Clear enough that I do not think I have a follow-up, which is unusual.
Staff note on titles, since it comes up. We retitle topics fairly often, always leaving the original in the first post and always logging it. It is not a criticism of the wording — it is that a title is how somebody finds this in eighteen months.
For what it is worth, the same held on the two occasions I checked.
Confirming post #84 from a second method, which matters more than confirming it from a second person.
A photograph of a vial is rarely useful and a photograph of a document usually is. Redact the identifiers before you post either.
Adding it in case it saves somebody the afternoon it cost me.
Post the arithmetic you already did. Half the questions here are answered by someone spotting which line of your working is wrong, and that is impossible if you only give the answer you got.
Building on post #88 rather than restating it.
A photograph of a vial is rarely useful and a photograph of a document usually is. Redact the identifiers before you post either.