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Daniel ab059673e5 content: every article has a high-yield view, and three ties that were not ties
**Missing views.** The note said 10 articles without a clinical view and 13
without a short one; the real numbers were 8 and 11, and the eight originals
turned out to carry no `variant` key at all, so everything in them was being
read as the long view. 33 sections written across 11 articles, every sentence
traceable to that article's own body, and the legacy sections stamped with the
variant they were always being treated as. No doses appear anywhere, because
not one of those eight states one. Every article now has a high-yield view and
`mdm_pass check` reads 330 of 331 conforming with no placeholder sections.

**Pediatric Dentistry** was neither an educator's job nor a delete. Its body is
real — scope, disparities, records and consent, public health, biomaterials —
and only its clinical view was the disclaimer. The three placeholder sections
are gone and the article stays: the reader hides a view an article does not
have, and a discipline overview about consent and public health has no bedside
path to write. Inventing one was the thing not to do.

**The 15 tied conditions were stale**, ticked with the evidence rather than
worked: the taxonomy rebuild gave every one of them a single home, and the
duplicate-name query now returns nothing.

**The 31 tied questions were 3**, and reading all three showed none was a real
tie. The best of them: a question about acute flaccid paralysis after minor
trauma was filed between "Nursemaid's Elbow" and "Radial Head Subluxation" —
two names for one condition, neither anything to do with the question. It is
under Spinal Cord Injury now, cross-filed to Acute Flaccid Paralysis, and the
two elbow links are removed rather than cross-filed: a wrong link surfaces a
question under a topic it does not belong to, which is the opposite of what
cross-filing is for.

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The 15 conditions with no evidence-based home

Settled 2026-09-12 — nothing here needs deciding any more. The taxonomy rebuild gave every condition a single home, so none of these fifteen is duplicated across systems now and merge_duplicate_conditions reports zero names needing a human call. Chlamydial Infection came back as Chlamydia Infection under Adolescent Medicine; the other fourteen kept their names. The table below is left as the record of the decision that was never needed.

Every other duplicated condition name had a clear plurality — one system held most of its questions — and 99 were merged into it, keeping a cross-link to the systems folded away so no filter narrows.

These fifteen are split evenly. There is no fact in the data that picks a winner, so nothing was merged: an arbitrary rule would be a decision disguised as a computation.

How to decide: pick the system a learner would look under first. The others are kept as cross-links either way, so the question still appears when filtering by them — the choice only sets where the condition lives in the tree.

Condition Questions Tied between
Feeding Difficulty 30 Neonatology · Gastroenterology & Nutrition
Breastfeeding Jaundice 16 Neonatology · Gastroenterology & Nutrition
Chlamydial Infection 16 Ophthalmology · Infectious Disease · Neonatology
Chorioamnionitis 14 Infectious Disease · Adolescent Medicine · Neonatology
Duodenal Atresia 8 Gastroenterology & Nutrition · Neonatology
Chemical Burn 8 Toxicology · Emergency Medicine
Contact Dermatitis 8 Dermatology · Allergy/Immunology
Respiratory Infection 8 Pulmonology · Infectious Disease
Gastritis 6 Primary Care & Prevention · Gastroenterology & Nutrition
Organophosphate Poisoning 6 Toxicology · Emergency Medicine
Pesticide Toxicity 6 Toxicology · Emergency Medicine
Orchitis 6 Nephrology & Urology · Infectious Disease
Neuroblastoma 6 Hematology-Oncology · Gastroenterology & Nutrition
Epididymitis 6 Nephrology & Urology · Infectious Disease
Holoprosencephaly 6 Genetics & Metabolism · Neonatology

Some of these look decidable to a clinician even though the counts are level — Organophosphate Poisoning and Pesticide Toxicity are the same call twice, and Orchitis and Epididymitis are a pair. Answer those together.

Once chosen, the merge is scripts/merge_duplicate_conditions.py, which keeps the row you name and folds the rest into it.