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514 points sarimkx | 1 comments | 14 Feb 24 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.25s | source
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webel0 ◴[14 Feb 24 18:18 UTC] 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. OJFord ◴[14 Feb 24 19:32 UTC] No.39374089[source]▶
I've had similar conversations (another one is classifying ECGs as normal or whatever variety of abnormal rhythm, for example) with my wife, who's a doctor, and it's always some combination of 'yeah, that kinda does happen' (just more manually/lower tech, or human-driven, etc. than we're imagining) and 'we don't want that' like you say.

What they do want afaict is more fundamental, should-be-so-much-easier stuff like case management software that doesn't suck, and like, a chair to sit on while using that computer.