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72. What’s Stopping Us From Curing Rare Diseases?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Theodore Earnoff's Genetic Disease

Artificial intelligence is already being used in emergency rooms to instantaneously screen for a more common disease. The question is what will be required for the example of detecting rare cardiovascular condition from EKGs to become real? Dr. Theodore Earnoff is developing treatments for genetic diseases, but his work comes with its own set of economic challenges. We owe it to the patients and the families to aggressively build a new framework.

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