Why We Trace Problems Back To Their First Sign

Small problems become expensive ones when ignored, so we watch for the smallest symptom first. In St. Johns, Florida and in every topic on this site, a watchful read stays with the first detail before it moves to anything bigger.

The smallest sign

Our research method is to work backward from documented complaints and failure reports to the earliest detectable sign. A paper on the demographics of patients with dermal filler complications is the kind of record we begin from. We read the report, find the earliest point it describes, and write the page from that point forward.

Local public sources sit beside the medical ones. Examples are the St. Johns County Public Library System, the sargassum (seaweed) page of the Florida Department of Health in St. Johns County, and the conservation pages of the GTM Research Reserve.

If no sign is clear

Some reports do not show where trouble began. When that happens we leave the point out of the page instead of guessing at an earliest sign. A page that names a sign always names its source and its publisher.