#medical-decision-making

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Law
fromSlate Magazine
6 days ago

A Controversial Legal Process Turned This Family's Tragedy Into a Nightmare-and It's More Common Than You Think

Guardianship can transfer control of incapacitated adults' medical care and finances to others, profoundly shaping their lives and assets.
#traditional-medicine
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago
Medicine

What AI doesn't know: we could be creating a global knowledge collapse' | Deepak Varuvel Dennison

Traditional remedies can yield unexpected medical results, revealing limits of digital medical authority and prompting reevaluation of trust between traditional practice and AI-era information.
fromAeon
2 months ago
Philosophy

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

A father's traditional herbal treatment coincided with the disappearance of a tongue tumour, prompting reassessment of trust in traditional remedies versus digital medical authority.
fromAeon
2 months ago
Philosophy

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Medicine
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

UK woman who refused cancer drugs was influenced by mother, inquest finds

Parental influence, particularly from mother Kate Shemirani, contributed to a 23-year-old woman's refusal of chemotherapy, likely causing her death from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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