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Patient 847

Patient 847

You're struck with a rare illness, queued up as Patient #847 for a specialist—a three-month wait. Straight track: the mandate that every diagnosis must have a human chief physician's wet signature. Do nothing and the protocol is abolished; a black-box AI goes live tonight with identical accuracy, writing your prescription immediately, but if it hallucinates, no human is liable. Curved track: the black-box terminal. Pull and smash the terminal, forcing human-only signatures while you suffer three months. What do you do?