diff --git a/backend/app/services/article_service.py b/backend/app/services/article_service.py
index 764d1f2..4ad4763 100644
--- a/backend/app/services/article_service.py
+++ b/backend/app/services/article_service.py
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 Three things live here because they are decisions rather than plumbing, and each
 one has a failure mode worth naming.
 
-**Variants.** One article is read three ways — the full text, the key points, and
-the clinical view that carries management and doses. They are one article rather
+**Variants.** One article is read three ways — short, long, and the clinical view
+that carries management and doses. They are one article rather
 than three because they describe one condition: split into three rows they drift
 apart, and a question linked to "Bronchiolitis" would have to pick which of the
 three it meant. Each section carries the variant it belongs to.
@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ from app.models.article import Article, ArticleRevision, ArticleSlug
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-VARIANTS = ("long", "key_points", "clinical")
+# Short first: it is the fastest way to tell whether this is the article you
+# wanted. Long is one click away and is what an article written before variants
+# existed becomes, since that is what it was.
+VARIANTS = ("short", "long", "clinical")
 DEFAULT_VARIANT = "long"
 
 # [[7|Febrile seizures]] — id first, because the id is the part that must not
diff --git a/backend/app/services/article_writer.py b/backend/app/services/article_writer.py
index 52ee1b0..ef11fb6 100644
--- a/backend/app/services/article_writer.py
+++ b/backend/app/services/article_writer.py
@@ -66,8 +66,9 @@ Produce three views of the same topic:
    Typical headings: Definition, Epidemiology, Etiology, Pathophysiology,
    Clinical features, Diagnostics, Differential diagnosis, Treatment,
    Complications, Prevention. Use only the ones the passages support.
-2. "key_points" — one section titled "Key points", 6 to 10 short bullets a
-   learner could revise from the night before an exam.
+2. "short" — one section titled "In short", 6 to 10 tight bullets a learner
+   could revise from the night before an exam. Every bullet must carry a fact:
+   no bullet that only says a topic is important.
 3. "clinical" — one or two sections covering management at the bedside:
    what to do, in what order, with drug doses and routes where the passages give
    them. Include units and per-kilogram dosing exactly as stated. If a dose is
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ Return ONLY valid JSON, no markdown fence:
 {{
   "summary": "one or two sentences, no heading",
   "long": [{{"title": "Definition", "content": "markdown"}}],
-  "key_points": [{{"title": "Key points", "content": "- bullet\\n- bullet"}}],
+  "short": [{{"title": "In short", "content": "- bullet\\n- bullet"}}],
   "clinical": [{{"title": "Management", "content": "markdown"}}]
 }}
 
@@ -161,7 +162,7 @@ def write_article(db: Session, topic: str, category_id: int | None = None,
 
     sections = _unique_slugs([
         *_sections(data.get("long"), "long"),
-        *_sections(data.get("key_points"), "key_points"),
+        *_sections(data.get("short"), "short"),
         *_sections(data.get("clinical"), "clinical"),
     ])
     if not sections:
diff --git a/backend/app/services/clinical_library.py b/backend/app/services/clinical_library.py
index b1bc849..1c781c0 100644
--- a/backend/app/services/clinical_library.py
+++ b/backend/app/services/clinical_library.py
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ DEFAULT_LIMIT = 12
 # They rank well against a query that looks like a chapter title and then fill
 # the shortlist with nothing — a topic named after a shelf retrieves ten of them.
 MIN_PROSE_CHARS = 200
+# Ask for more than we need, because the prose filter runs after ranking. A
+# broad query — "Immunodeficiency", a specialty name — matches chapter titles
+# and index lines first, and filtering inside a shortlist of fourteen left
+# nothing at all.
+POOL_MULTIPLIER = 5
 
 
 TIMEOUT = 20
@@ -119,7 +124,7 @@ def search(query: str, limit: int = DEFAULT_LIMIT,
         "collectionName": settings.CLINICAL_MILVUS_COLLECTION,
         "data": [vector],
         "annsField": "dense",
-        "limit": limit,
+        "limit": limit * POOL_MULTIPLIER,
         "outputFields": ["payload", "folder_path", "file_path", "chunk_index"],
     }
     # Filtering in the query is what keeps the shelf constraint honest: taking
@@ -150,6 +155,8 @@ def search(query: str, limit: int = DEFAULT_LIMIT,
             "source": _source_of(raw),
             "folder": _tidy(hit.get("folder_path")),
         })
+        if len(results) >= limit:
+            break
     return results
 
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ArticleReader.jsx b/frontend/src/components/ArticleReader.jsx
index ef2301b..0dabe50 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ArticleReader.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ArticleReader.jsx
@@ -46,14 +46,16 @@ export function Markdown({ children, attemptId }) {
  * links and the pane keeps it to itself; everything else — what is open, the
  * rail, the mobile drawer — belongs to this reader alone.
  */
-// One topic, three readings. The full article is what you study from; the key
-// points are what you revise from; the clinical view is what you act from at the
-// bedside. They are views of one article rather than three articles, so the
-// numbers cannot drift apart and a question linked to the topic still means one
-// thing.
+// One topic, three readings. Short is what you revise from, long is what you
+// study from, clinical is what you act from at the bedside. They are views of
+// one article rather than three articles, so the numbers cannot drift apart and
+// a question linked to the topic still means one thing.
+//
+// Short leads because it is the quickest way to tell whether this is the article
+// you wanted; the full text is one click away.
 const VIEWS = [
-  { key: 'long', label: 'Article' },
-  { key: 'key_points', label: 'Key points' },
+  { key: 'short', label: 'Short' },
+  { key: 'long', label: 'Long' },
   { key: 'clinical', label: 'Clinical' },
 ]
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/EditorialPage.test.jsx b/frontend/src/pages/EditorialPage.test.jsx
index 5333862..01435ee 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/EditorialPage.test.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/EditorialPage.test.jsx
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ const queue = {
   ],
   machine_drafts: [
     { id: 2, slug: 'intussusception', title: 'Intussusception', status: 'draft',
-      generated_by: 'clinical-library:claude', variants: ['long', 'key_points', 'clinical'] },
+      generated_by: 'clinical-library:claude', variants: ['short', 'long', 'clinical'] },
   ],
   published_without_references: [],
   published_without_questions: [