A variant by any name: quantifying annotation discordance across tools and clinical databases

A variant by any name : quantifying annotation discordance 7 across tools and clinical databases

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'Depression by any other name...'.

There is a popular conviction that psychological disturbance is invariably a reaction to environmental events. This approach is associated with total rejection of the so-called 'medical model'. However, allowance must be made for the fact that contemporary krnow-ledge of psychiatric illness is well behind what is now known about general medicine, and current ideas about psychiatric aetiology ma...

Depression: a quiet killer by any name.

A Pathological Rose by Any Other Name

As lecturers in pathology it is our task to impart a smattering of pathological knowledge to the modern Bristol medical student. In doing so we are forced to utilise the age old descriptive terms of surgical pathology passed down to us from time when Virchow was an SHO! Far from making our task easy, we are often asked to explain in terms more appropriate to the twentieth century what these arc...

Cellulitis, by any other name.

“I know it when I see it . . . ,” as Justice Potter Stewart famously said of hard-core pornography. Would that this were the case with cellulitis. In principle, cellulitis is simply defined as an acute infection with inflammation of the skin involving the dermis and subcutaneous tissues. In practice, because of the overlapping signs and symptoms of skin infections, the terminology has become bu...