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Profiles, boards and prep sheets for the times somebody cannot explain themselves — written for whoever is doing the task.

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How to read an EOB and find the charge you shouldn't pay
2026-08-23 · 1 min read

An Explanation of Benefits is not a bill. Comparing it to the itemised bill is where the errors show up.

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The one-page profile for someone who cannot explain themselves
2026-08-25 · 3 min read

How to write the sheet a stranger reads in thirty seconds — and why the good ones hold no numbers.

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How to build a communication board people actually use
2026-08-25 · 3 min read

Choosing the words, sizing the cells, and why a photo of the actual cup beats a drawing of a cup.

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Orientation cards that tell, and never test
2026-08-25 · 3 min read

Large-print day signs, people cards and door labels — and the one wording rule that decides whether they help.

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How to turn a pile of medical notes into one readable page
2026-08-25 · 3 min read

Years of letters, three diaries and fifteen minutes with a new specialist. The fix is structure, not recall.

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Decide your three questions before the appointment
2026-08-25 · 4 min read

A short appointment ends where your list runs out of time. Choosing which three must be answered is the work.

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BMI was built to describe populations, not people
2026-08-27 · 3 min read

The ratio comes out of 1830s social statistics and picked up its modern name over a century later. Here is the arithmetic and what it contains.

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The ideal weight formulas were built for drug dosing
2026-08-27 · 3 min read

Devine and its successors exist to estimate lean mass so a medication dose can be calculated. They were never validated as targets for a person.

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The Navy body fat formula and its error bars
2026-08-27 · 3 min read

A tape measure and a logarithm produce a percentage to six decimal places. Here is the method, and why the precision is not the accuracy.

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Waist to height: why a plain ratio beats a fitted formula
2026-08-27 · 3 min read

One division, no constants, no reference table, no population fit. The simplest measure in the set is also the most portable, and that is not a coincidence.

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