How a case synthesis would be published
This page describes a method and a publication gate. It is not a case series.
Last materially reviewed
No approved case syntheses are currently listed
BiomeLogic publishes no case syntheses at this time. There are no illustrative, composite, or example cases anywhere on this site — a fabricated case reads exactly like a real one, so none is published at all.
Nothing derived from intake submissions, uploaded records, portal messages, or any other private client material is eligible for publication in any form.
The publication gate
- 1. Public and approved. Material must already be public and explicitly approved for publication by the site owner. Approval is recorded in the record itself, not assumed.
- 2. No private data. Intake forms, uploaded records, lab files, and portal messages are structurally excluded. Public code never stores raw records.
- 3. Explicit flag or nothing ships. A record is only routable and indexable when its approval flag is literally true and its status is published. Anything else is a draft: excluded from every sitemap and served
noindexif a preview route exists. - 4. Observational framing only. Every published case carries the standing disclaimer below and a list of conclusions it cannot support.
The template
Every field below is required by the schema. Publishing the structure openly is part of the point: a reader can check whether a future case actually answered each field.
- publicTitle
- Neutral description. No outcome or success framing.
- scopeStatement
- What the document is, and what it cannot support.
- context
- Minimised background, each statement epistemically labeled.
- chronology
- Relative timing only — never calendar dates.
- observedData
- What was actually recorded, marked Observed.
- mechanisticSynthesis
- The reading, marked Inferred or Hypothesized.
- competingHypotheses
- Alternative explanations that fit the same data.
- falsifiers
- What would break the leading interpretation.
- clinicianQuestions
- Questions to take to a licensed clinician.
- subsequentObservations
- Only when follow-up publication was separately authorized. Never attributed causally.
- limitations
- Design, measurement, and confounding limits.
- references
- Public literature only. No private documents.
- version / lastSubstantiveReview
- Change transparency.
Every statement carries a label
A reader should never have to guess whether a sentence describes something that was actually recorded or something that was proposed. Each statement in a published case is tagged.
- Observed
- Directly recorded in the source material.
- Inferred
- Derived from observations with stated reasoning.
- Hypothesized
- A mechanistic proposal that has not been tested in this case.
- Alternative explanation
- A competing reading that fits the same observations.
- Unknown
- Not established by the available material.
What is never published
- Identifying geography (city, clinic, region)
- Calendar dates where a relative range suffices
- Rare identifying combinations of conditions or procedures
- Names of treating clinicians or institutions
- Any contact detail
- Medication or supplement dosing
- Raw lab PDFs, record exports, or portal screenshots
- Exact age or date of birth
De-identification alone is not consent, and consent alone is not de-identification. A real case needs both, recorded separately, before anything is published.
Case syntheses are observational descriptions of a single situation. They cannot establish cause, effect, or treatment efficacy, they are not evidence that any approach works, and they are not medical advice. Care decisions belong with a licensed clinician.