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Fentanyl, Fifty Cents & Dr. AI
A listener asks a surprisingly reasonable question: If fentanyl kills thousands of Americans, why isn’t it used for executions?
From there, we follow fifty cents through a convenience-store cash register and ask what happens when an overcharge isn’t just taking money from a customer, but from taxpayers and SNAP recipients.
Then there’s AI medicine. Can artificial intelligence really provide a “second opinion,” or is its better role helping patients understand what their doctors are telling them and ask better questions?
Fentanyl, 7-Eleven, taxpayer money, doctors, algorithms and a little Star…
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