clinical_calc: cited clinical formulas in pure Dart, with explicit units
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Clinical formulas are short. Cockcroft-Gault fits on one line. That is the trap: the arithmetic is easy, and the mistakes are somewhere else. A creatinine value typed in µmol/L goes into an equation that expects mg/dL. An eGFR indexed to 1.73 m² is used where an absolute clearance in mL/min was needed. An adult equation is applied to a child. None of these crashes. Each one returns a number that looks reasonable. clinical_calc is a pure Dart package built around those mistakes. Quantities carry their unit, impossible inputs throw typed errors, formulas refuse to run outside the population they
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