Re: Faith held by Jehovah's Witnesses does not always forbid blood transfusions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The author responds, My understanding is that although Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) seek medical care and accept most medical treatments, their religious beliefs preclude transfusion of whole blood and its major components. JWs regard donor-derived blood transfusion (whole blood, red cells, white cells, platelets and plasma) as contrary to scriptural commands. They request medical management using alternatives to blood transfusion, eg, blood conservation and ‘bloodless’ surgery (ie, surgery performed without the use of transfused blood). The sources of my understanding include materials from the Jehovah's Witnesses – Office of Public Information Web site: ... JWs do not necessarily reject the use of some blood fractions that may have been processed or derived from plasma or blood cells (eg, albumin, clotting factors, immunoglobulins, fibrin glue, cryoprecipitate, oxygen-carrying red-cell substitutes and interferons). Because JW patients make their own individual personal decisions on these matters, it is essential to discuss the acceptability of blood and specific blood products with each individual patient or family.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.035 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.009 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.067 | 0.038 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".