THE CAPABLE MINOR’S HEALTHCARE: WHO DECIDES?
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Who decides the medical treatment of a capable young person defined by statute to be a child—the young person’s parents? the state or courts exercising parens patriae authority? or the young person? This article examines the intersection of medical practice and studies on developmental capacity, common law, parens patriae jurisdiction, provincial and territorial legislation, and rights and freedoms protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Guidance is found in an analysis of comparative law from the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Common law and Charter guarantees, together with the realities of a young person’s cognitive and psychological development, and medical practice, submits the author, confirm that medical treatment decisions should be made by the capable young person.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 it