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c/reconstitution·submitted 1 year ago by u/piotr_bruun

[Discussion] we are measuring bacteriostatic water at the wrong time and calling it noise

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insulin syringe. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/intlshipping is downstream of it. Titration speed, early fullness, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort insulin syringe out first, and almost nobody does. I say this having got it wrong for…

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u/julia_erdogan317 points·1 year ago

dead space is real and the syringe matters

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u/rasmus_kuipers198 points·1 year ago

dead space is real and the syringe matters

Disagree on that part. 97.4% and 97.4% on the same vial is normal.

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u/iman_falk105 points·1 year ago

Slight fix: the number was 97.6, not 98.1. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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