The Pain Was Unbearable. So Why Did Doctors Turn Her Away?

Appriss started out in the 1990s making software that automatically notifies crime victims and other “concerned citizens” when a specific incarcerated person is about to be released. Later it moved into health care.

NarxCare is one of many predictive algorithms that have proliferated across several domains of life in recent years. In medical settings, algorithms have been used to predict which patients are most likely to benefit from a particular treatment and to estimate the probability that a patient in the ICU will deteriorate or die if discharged.

But in practice, algorithms that originate with law enforcement have displayed a track record of running in the opposite direction. In 2016, for example, ProPublica analyzed how COMPAS, an algorithm designed to help courts identify which defendants are most likely to commit future crimes, was far more prone to incorrectly flag Black defendants as likely recidivists.

Appriss, for its part, says that within NarxCare’s algorithms, “there are no adjustments to the risk scoring to account for potential underlying biases” in its source data.

Opioids need to be set to schedule 1 they shouldn’t have ever existed.

More old news.

Because doctors got so many people addicted to opioids, now those in need can't get ANY. Took away my morphine for my 5 ruptured disks. Hurt back on trampoline in high school 52 years ago. Can't always suck up pain! Wish Drs could feel our pain for 5 minutes.

Wait, you mean to say that the 'opiate crisis' moral panic is leading to patients not having their pain adequately managed? Wow... who could have predicted -that- would happen?

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