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Diagnosis: contemporary medical hubris; Rx: a tincture of humility

2005· article· en· W2091766650 on OpenAlexaff
Stephen J. Genuis

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealthcare cost, quality, practices
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHubrisHumilityMedicinePsychological interventionAlternative medicineHealth carePublic relationsEngineering ethicsNursingPolitical sciencePathology

Abstract

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Despite increasing attention to evidence-based medicine, unprecedented advances in medical technology, and rapid diffusion of innovative information, there continues to be disturbing disclosures of widespread iatrogenic illness resulting from harmful medical interventions. The medical community at times displays a lethargic and lackluster response to important scientific and epidemiological data that challenges prevailing conventional wisdom or that elucidates existing medical miscalculations. To ensure that long-term health and well-being for patients and the community remains the primary goal of medicine, it is necessary to revisit the important issues of scientific integrity, health care objectives, and medical professionalism. Furthermore, to be trustworthy advisors for individual patients and credible advocates for the health of populations, the medical community needs to critically evaluate the profound influence of commercial interests on medical research, medical education and clinical practice.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.209
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.572
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.404
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.2090.572
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.822
GPT teacher head0.719
Teacher spread0.103 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2005
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