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The Orchid Room and Cancer - with Hannah Fry

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The Only Person Who Can Really Aftribute Their Own Values

i think that the only person who can really weigh their own values is the patient themselves. I don't think that you can create an equation, a sort of population level analysis of this that applies to everybody. The formulae for who should and shouldn't have treatment are not designed to take the individual patients values into account enough. There's also, i think there are times where the numbers exist, the numbers are there that you can look at, but it's how you interpret them that is different for different people. It must just be really hard to apportion waiting to these things. Riht, it kind of means different things. To just put it in terms numbers. You always

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