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Sigh. Unfortunately there's a lot of misinformation around this topic that gets people riled up for no reason. There's plenty of research in healthcare decision making since Paul Meehl (see Gerd Gigerenzer for more recent work) that shows using statistical models as decision aids massively compensate for the biases that happen when you entrust a decision to a human practitioner. No algorithm is making a final call without supervision, they are just being used to look at situations more objectively. People get very anxious in healthcare when a model is involved and yet the irony is humans alone make terrible decisions.
Link aggregators and users in comments not reading the article, name a more iconic duo.