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Diagnosis Is A Narrative Process
- Diagnosis is a narrative, interactive process, not just data input for an algorithm.
- AI can augment clinicians but replacing the human probing and evolving context remains extremely hard.
CRISPR's Risk Is Cultural And Complex
- CRISPR's risks depend on cultural, ecological, and multi-gene complexity rather than simple parental selection.
- Editing single genes is limited; many traits are multigenic and propagate unpredictably across ecosystems.
Solving Retained Sponges With Barcodes
- A persistent ~1-in-1,500 sponge rate led Gawande's team to study 60 cases and 240 controls to find counting was fallible.
- They solved it cheaply with barcode scanning and near-eliminated retained sponges.