Posting this under the heading it deserves: Joined after a search result and stayed Everything below is what sits behind that.
Saying hello, and stating my interest so that it is on the record rather than inferred.
I am here for the documentation and the analytical discussion. I have nothing to sell, no affiliation with any supplier, and no intention of posting about my own care.
If there is a convention I am about to break, I would rather be told now than after.
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.
Speaking for myself and not for anyone else who has posted here.
Seconded. It reads as careful rather than confident, which is the right register.
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.
Coming in from the clinical side and slightly wary of the register. I have read enough to see that "not medical advice" is meant here rather than pasted, which is why I have joined.
Ongoing: you can post multiple introductions over time. If you return after a long break, reintroducing yourself is fine.
A weak preference rather than a position.
Welcome. The short version of the culture: be specific, date everything, and say when you are guessing. That is genuinely the whole of it.
Stating my assumptions rather than smuggling them in.
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