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How 'bout 1000. 10000? Now were just arguing numbers. Don't forget the opportunity cost of unneeded treatments using resources that could have "saved" others as well.

We're taking many paths but ending up at some sort of rationing in the end. There's no easy answers.



I doubt they would have removed a liver if the risks where that low.

So, really it's saving lives at the cost of a fixed but low number of false positives and a lot of wasted tests not a 10,000 extra removed livers per life saved.




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