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68. The E.R. Doctor’s Dilemma

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Is There a World Where Algorithms Can Help Doctors?

I think we're very far from a world where algorithms can take those decisions themselves. But I think there's a lot of help that algorithms can give human decision makers when it comes to processing this vast amount of data. You could spend hours reading about any one of the patients that you see in the ED but you need to see 30 in an eight hour period. Everything with that information overload is a huge, huge promise of algorithms and processing them down into these little snippets of information that can help decision makers.

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