What we are actually doing about one disease, what we have
found, and what we still do not know. Nordstern rates where a disease stands.
Engpass says what is in the way. This is the workspace.
A record is a verdict and a case file is a workspace. A Nordstern record says
where a disease stands, rated on a date, signed, and append-only so that a citation
keeps resolving. It is meant to be hard to change. A case file is the opposite: notes
that grow weekly, models that turn out to be wrong, a dated log of corrections, and a
list of things a stranger could pick up. Most diseases will never have one. A
case file exists where work has started, which makes this list the short one.
howWhat a case file holds
Eleven sections, in the order a stranger needs them. The one that
does the work is the mechanism, step by step: a numbered chain, one row per
step, each marked established, partial or open,
with the model that shows it. An empty model column is left empty, because that
is the list of things worth building. Two further rules earn their place: every model
states what it refuses to claim, and a section called
what we got wrong is dated and never edited away.
Terms, defined once — and what each one does not mean
Written after a table in the first case file used relevant
cells and disease at birth as though they were self-explanatory. The
reader coming into the field is the one this register is for, and they are the
person most likely to notice that a sentence does not say anything.
The template, and the rule that cost the most to learn