The Receipts
Decode the numbers, see the pattern, save the patient.
The Receipts begins with the foundation: understanding normal ranges and the physiology behind each marker. Labs are evidence of what is unfolding inside the patient - often before physical symptoms appear.
Think critically about trends and relationships, not just isolated values. A sodium of 120 is more than just ‘low’, it is a clue to volume status, neurologic risk, and cardiac function. A rising lactate is a warning of tissue hypoperfusion before a patient collapses.
Designed for acute care clinicians, hospitalists, and nurse practitioners, The Receipts transforms passive laboratory data into an active diagnostic tool. The numbers speak before the patient shouts; once you decode the clues, you see what others cannot.
Jones John, DO
Nephrology