Bibliographic record
Abstract
EvEr noticE how many shows thErE arE on tElEvision profiling doctors, nurses, police officers, lawyers, even cake decorators, but nothing showcasing pharmacists?Are our lives and daily experiences not interesting enough for prime time drama?Why doesn't the public find us "sexy"?Have you ever asked someone that question?I polled some of my friends in the entertainment industry by e-mail, to see what they thought.To draw in viewers, producers must look for conflict and a dramatic question that makes up the core of each show.Each episode has some sort of conflict and resolution."Genre TV is popular for this reason," explains Vicki Madden, story producer from the popular UK drama, The Bill. "Medical or hospital dramas ask, 'Will they live or die?' Police dramas ask, 'Will good outweigh evil?' What is the dramatic question for a drama set in a pharmacy?"The life of a pharmacist isn't that dramatic.What kinds of scenarios could sustain an entire season consisting of 24 episodes -after all, there are only so many different ways you can depict miscounting!Madden adds, "if it was a corrupt pharmacist you could incorporate that character into a police drama.Then again, you could do a family drama à la Six Feet Under and have the pharmacy business as the core element."As it turns out, one of Madden's friends is currently developing that idea, but she adds, "you would still have to ensure you had enough conflict and drama to sustain good ongoing storylines."Catherine Kolody, producer of the short movie Tahune's Beast in Tasmania, Australia, explains, "People's view of what a pharmacist does comes from their local chemist or supermarket pharmacy: professional, chemistry-type people in white lab coats who dispense medications and sometimes counsel you on side effects or interactions."Kolody confirms what Madden had earlier said on drama and conflict and says, "Dramatic tension, essential in any television or film story, depends on both settings and characters which lend to a seemingly unending supply of storylines."Kolody explains that hospital dramas are unique and fascinating to the viewer because they give viewers life and death situations that they don't normally encounter.The ability of doctors and nurses to save lives captivates viewers.As a part-time nurse, Kolody concedes, "While a pharmacist may, in real life, play an integral role in these life-saving endeavours, the average viewer has no concept of this.A pharmacist identifying a potentially fatal drug interaction seems exciting, but can it carry an entire episode?"Catherine confesses that there is only so much that a producer or writer can do with the character of a pharmacist, stating, "The
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".