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webel0 ◴[] No.39373159[source]
(Tangentially related to, “A WAY TO END CANCER”)

After seeing how my doctor iteratively ordered up different sets of tests for me over the course of a few months, I got to thinking about improving decision trees for blood testing (and maybe others).

However, when I spoke to a (first year) med student about this he suggested that doctors actually don’t want something like this. I don't think I followed the thought process completely but it was something along the lines of, “we’ll always find something.”

Would be interested if someone could elaborate on this line of thinking.

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1. nonethewiser ◴[] No.39373251[source]
Can you elaborate? Im not following but it sounds interesting. What problem did you see and what alternative did you propose? I take it that the doctor was performing an inefficient search.