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So if we had evidence that a machine was more effective or made better decisions (or had better all-cause mortality evidence) than a human clinician, you would choose the human clinician in all cases?

How is this any different than comparing Drug A to Drug B? You should choose the one that's more effective (and/or cheaper), why should emotion or the human-touch get into it?

Having said that, if you're paying the bill yourself, go nuts, but I'm in an environment where the public foots most of these bills, and therefore has some say in my opinion.



The human clinician would (hopefully) be operating the machine.




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