Notes on These Notes

Read the source. Find what it asks of you. Do that, and set the rest aside. These notes are built on that habit, for readers around Cos Cob who find treatment descriptions hard going.

Expect dense pages

Most treatment descriptions are written for people who already know the terms. If you opened one and left with more questions than you brought, the page was written for someone else.

Start from the primary document

Every note begins with a primary document, not with someone else's summary of it. Each note credits the publisher by name right where its wording is used.

Keep only what it asks of you

Each requirement is cut down to what it asks the reader to do or prepare. Short directives, calm wording, and your time ahead of our word count.

Keep numbers as printed

A number, an interval or a duration appears exactly as the source prints it. Nothing is rounded or restated.

Know what is covered

The notes give plain-language readings of rules, requirement documents and official forms. Here that means treatment descriptions in medical aesthetics: pigment concerns such as hyperpigmentation, skin tightening and hair removal.

Check the reading against the source

A shortened reading can still be checked. Open the full source, such as the page on melasma, and hold it against the note.

Take your own skin to a clinician

These notes explain published information and do not replace a clinician's advice for your own skin. They make no diagnosis and promise no result.

Begin with one plain question

Choose the topic you are researching and read its note first. A question such as what can get rid of age spots is a good place to start. If a line still loses you, name it on the contact page.