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>>rossan+(OP)
This doesn’t surprise me. We have massive systemic issues in medical science and care delivery.

- Medical science handles variation by simply assuming that large enough samples will average out variation. This loses a ton of information as the “average person” is a construct that almost certainly doesn’t exist.

- news media on medical science glosses over all uncertainties in the name of clickbaity sensationalism.

- lawyers are the incentivized by our adversarial legal system to adopt aggressively hyperbolic interpretations of the science to sue people and extract money.

- medical associations then tweak policies to protect against malpractice

Run this loop enough times and lots of noise gets amplified.

My hope is the AI+sensors ushers in the era of truely personalized medicine.

>>rapate+Vf5
> - Medical science handles variation by simply assuming that large enough samples will average out variation. This loses a ton of information as the “average person” is a construct that almost certainly doesn’t exist.

Well, this wouldn't even be that bad, if sample size were actually large enough.

>>eru+zx5
That's part of it. The sample size is usually super small.

Furthermore, there's the opportunity. With large amounts of data (from software, medical devices, sensors) we can actually tackle this problem at scale.