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> It's great but with healthcare I don't think people should be treated as dollar signs.

These kinds of models are also great for triage. Healthcare is a limited resource, especially in trauma situations which have been using models to measure survival for decades.

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At the same time, we should be finding ways to use technology so healthcare isn’t a limited resource, so humans aren’t the bottleneck.

Even when we have whatever technology would make heathcare less limited, there will need to be ways to measure the prognosis of the patient. Otherwise we would be giving very unpleasant treatments to patients who only need palliative care (like chemo for terminal cancer patients).

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