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The five steps of a patient's path
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The five steps of a patient's path
Symptom, access, triage, diagnosis, treatment — digital systems have entered all five.
The key health question
Does the system propose to a person, or does it decide? An error in the second has no owner.
Why triage is the hardest case
An error is a person waiting, and nobody sorted downwards is told they were sorted.
Why overall accuracy misleads
It hides much worse performance for groups barely present in the training data.
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Four levels of technology and the body
Carried, worn, implanted, and reading the nervous system.
Why consent weakens down the ladder
Refusing costs more at each level — at the bottom it costs your health, so agreement is formal rather than real.
Why body data is different
It cannot be changed, is collected continuously, and reveals illness, pregnancy and mood.
What protects better than consent
Limits on what may be collected at all, because a limit does not depend on the person's bargaining position.
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Why two rising lines prove little
The cause may run either way, or a third factor may move both.
Why averages mislead here
A large effect on a small group disappears into a small average — and that group is the concern.
Mechanisms worth naming
Comparison, disturbed sleep, harassment that follows a person home, and targeted content.
Why the narrow claim is stronger
It names something a platform could change, so refusing to change it becomes the thing to judge.
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