Post #1991407
2026-04-21 02:51 UTC
@smallcircles @arclight
"Victims" is kind of 😬 but also, not inaccurate in the context of recent technology culture.
My perspective is from the "inside" of enterprise medical tech. Some examples that companies externalize:
-- more readily available diagnostic imaging leads to many people being unnecessarily identified with injury/disease, despite it not being clinically significant. Trauma and death from unnecessary treatment exists.
-- "optimizing" health care, with fast comms or ... 1/?
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@johannab@cosocial.ca 2026-04-21 02:54
@smallcircles @arclight ... online-only services or purely digital diagnostics further marginalizes some populations, who may outright lose access they once had when clinics and services select only "compliant" patients. -- a notable and rather horrifying statistic was revealed by study that cancer patients who receive their diagnostic results directly and remotely have higher suicide rates and may be less likely to return to treatment compared to those whose prognosis comes in-person.