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Re:Google is developing cancer and heart attack detector by epeterson19 on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @05:48PM (#8523799)
So you can be directed towards doctors/procedures/products to treat whatever they find? Advertising isn't necessarily bad...
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Re:Google is developing cancer and heart attack detector by ripb on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @05:57PM (#8523847)
>So you can be directed towards doctors/procedures/products to treat whatever they find? Advertising isn't necessarily bad...

Which promotes those who can pay the most to advertise, not the best in their field or even a given user's area/feasible options.

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Re:Google is developing cancer and heart attack detector by epeterson19 on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @11:22AM (#8527644)
One could argue that the best doctors would be the ones with the most deployable capital. Not too many lotto winners in medicine.
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