SleepDoc_PDX said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
HealthEcon_DC said:Agreed, and reference ranges are laboratory-specific.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
SleepDoc_PDX said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
Pushing back on SleepDoc_PDX here. Not convinced. The evidence being cited is consistent with the conclusion and also consistent with two other conclusions nobody has ruled out.
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