Five ways, in the order they actually matter to us. The first four are free and are worth more to the work than the fifth. We put money last because it is last.
This is first, and it is not politeness. Every claim on this site carries a grade, and the honest grades are the ones that make the good ones worth anything. A page that is corrected is better than a page that is agreed with, and we would rather be told early by you than late by everybody.
Use the comment rail in the margin of any page. It opens where you are and keeps your place. One sentence is a complete answer.
If you work in medicine, there is a specific set of things we have guessed at and cannot check — five assumptions about your side of the chart, each written so it can be corrected in a line. Correcting one of them is worth more to us than agreeing with all five.
When you type a question and this site cannot match it, that is the most useful thing that happens here all day. It is the record of where our words and yours part company, and it is how the writing gets fixed.
So ask badly, ask sideways, ask the thing you would not say out loud. If we miss, we will ask whether we may keep the question so we can go and write the answer. You can say no, and it is asked once.
One observation looks like nothing. Four hundred of the same observation is a signal nobody has collected. If something happened to you, or to somebody you look after, and it did not match what you were told to expect — that is data, and it is currently being thrown away everywhere.
How to write it down so it still counts in a year →
This is open to anyone who is interested. Graduate students, high school students, grandmothers, researchers, people with no letters after their name at all. It is not a patients-and-carers programme and we would ask you not to read it as one.
Not a share button and not a campaign. If you know somebody who is going into an appointment frightened, or who has been handed a result nobody explained, send them the page that would have helped you.
That is how everything here arrived in the first place. What you found was written by people who went through it before you and said so. We think we owe the same to whoever comes next, and frankly we think you do too.
No one is ever turned away because of cost. That is true whatever you do on this page, and it does not depend on funding arriving. It depends only on us.
If this was worth something to you, contribute what you think it was worth, based on what you can afford, at whatever interval feels right. There is no amount, no tier, and nothing is withheld from anyone who gives nothing.
We are asking exactly once — this is it. We will never solicit you again. You may see a quiet line at the foot of a page pointing back here. That is as far as it will ever go.
What this page is not. There is no sign-up, no membership and no account.
Nothing here is withheld from anybody, and nothing on this page changes what you can read
or use. The four things above are listed before money because they are worth more than
money to the work, which is a statement about what this is, not a way of softening the
fifth.
Still to come. There is no way to actually send a contribution yet, and
saying so is better than a button that goes nowhere. The comment rail works today; the
question capture works today; the rest is honest about being early, like the rest of
the site.