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There's nothing stopping docs from using customized therapies that haven't been through clinical trials. Once a drug is approved, doctors can pretty much do whatever they want with them. If there is an approved drug with the mechanism that the computer program wants, the doc can prescribe it.

But bear in mind that the doc may have trouble with malpractice liability, and insurance probably won't pay for it.



"There's nothing stopping docs..." Oh yes there is, the strongest entropy I've ever witnessed in any field of science.




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