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Re:Machine learning is booming in medicine, but also facing ... by Enginerrrd on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:08AM (#27434646)
The potential harm runs deeper than this even. Once a structural abnormality is found, the nocebo effect can come into play and essentially cause symptoms in asymptomatic people, which is a terrible result.
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Re:Machine learning is booming in medicine, but also facing ... by inglor_cz on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:22AM (#27434802)
Also, one thing that is found does not preclude existence of other things to be found. The first discovered problem may attract so much attention that potential others are neglected.

Tl;dr: the first diagnosis tends to stick with the patient.

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