Bibliographic record
Abstract
This wonderful volume, prepared by the department and division heads of the MGH under the inspired leadership and persistence of Joseph Hanaway, a loyal alumnus of our Faculty of Medicine and erstwhile trainee of the MGH; and John H. Burgess, a former director of cardiology; is a special tribute to an extraordinary institution that has served, taught, and inspired multiple generations of Montrealers and their families.The book and the institution it describes offer many lessons in the richness of the partnership between a community and the institutions it initiates and nurtures and that, in turn, serve the members of that community over a span of centuries.From the outset, the impetus for the creation of the hospital was the need to care for the burgeoning influx of immigrants, primarily from Ireland, Scotland, and England, who left their native lands to seek better fortunes in the New World.Hence, the General was created as a charitable institution and its attending physicians were barred from charging fees to their indigent patients.The hospital was founded by Montreal's Protestant community, including leaders from the Scots-Canadian community whose Presbyterian faith instilled in them a strong sense of service (particularly to their less fortunate brethren) and whose vision as Freemasons encompassed the construction of lasting institutions whose design and support merged both physical and spiritual values.The line of one founder and immigrant from Lincolnshire, John Molson (the elder), can be traced to seventh-generation offspring who live in Montreal and who use the General as "their" hospital.This sense of family among staff and patients is a feature of the institution's corporate ethos, and it is cited by all who work within it as characteristic of the quality of its healing environment.It is noteworthy that the original institution was first called the House of Charity and then the House of Recovery, a name that would befit the aspirations of a modern hospital.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.202 | 0.151 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".