Planning for the Known Unknown: Machine Learning for Human Healthcare Systems

by Jonathan H. Chen MD, PhD and Abraham Verghese MD, MACP The post originally appeared as an editorial in the November 2020 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Clinical medicine is an inexact science. In situations of uncertainty, we often ask an experienced colleague for a second opinion. But what if one could effectively call upon the experience of thousands? This might seem counterintuitive—too many cooks and “consultant creep” can spoil the broth. Yet Condorcet’s jury theorem, a centuries-old mathematical formulation, explains why we entrust juries to decide guilt or innocence rather than judges, and why we prefer voting democracies over dictators.…
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