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Record W2109997403 · doi:10.1017/s1478951504040106

Darkness and light: Perspectives in palliative medicine

2004· article· en· W2109997403 on OpenAlexaff
Andrew Epstein

Bibliographic record

VenuePalliative & Supportive Care · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEmpathy and Medical Education
Canadian institutionsUniversity of New Brunswick
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWonderHumanityBattleAestheticsDestiny (ISS module)White (mutation)Natural (archaeology)CustodiansArt historyArtVisual artsHistoryPhilosophyTheologyEngineering

Abstract

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Every year , a new cache of medical students is baptized into this ageless art, and with this distinction comes a ceremonial distribution of the white coat. I was exuberant when I received mine—how beautiful! The thick cords of fabric are so neatly woven, reminiscent of chain mail armor worn by Lancelot and his peers…. Yes, this is a suit of armor , my impervious battle dress against the foes of Disease and Illness. It is replete with knowledge, seething with confidence, keen in choice of diagnosis and treatment—a great garment of ritual and power no different than Merlin's robe or the shield of Constantine. The brilliant white threads reflect purity of heart and clarity of mind, illuminating the nature of human condition. With this armament, we saw ourselves as the natural optimistic extension of our time—purveyors of medical manifest destiny. I was confident a true understanding of humanity hinged on my education. What an astonishing machine, this Man creature! So intricate, so functionally efficient, so synergistic, the ultimate holistic wonder. And how very reasonable for such a pinnacle in the scheme of natural history to have insight regarding his mechanics, that he might tinker and prod, cut a bit here and there, a tincture of chemical now or again, polishing up the imperfections and peccadillos inherent in producing 6,000,000,000 copies of something, anything.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.360
Threshold uncertainty score0.893

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.031
GPT teacher head0.357
Teacher spread0.325 · 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
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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