Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1848, the famed German physician, Rudolf Virchow, argued that the best solution to combat squalor and disease was the widespread introduction of political "democracy."That same year he joined the revolutionary upheavals in the German Lands and took to the barricades in Berlin in protest.Physicians have always been in a unique position to serve as activists.Seen as experts in the public eye and situated at the forefront of health care, physicians have the expertise and social clout to champion myriad topics.One of the most famous Canadian physicians, Dr. Norman Bethune, can be viewed in the same spirit as Virchow as he was an incredibly prolific activist in his time.Using Dr. Bethune as a central starting point, we will first review several areas in which Canadian physicians have fought passionately for causes they believed in -the development of Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH), the push for socialized heath care, the advent of Mdecins Sans Frontires, Physicians for Global Survival and International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War -and then ask the question, where does the concept of activism stand with the physicians of today?
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".