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Just as the map is not the territory, so too an algorithm is never the care that is given. Algorithms, neural networks, guidelines, and protocols—these all can only ever model aspects of a reality that is always more complex and fickle. As we move into a world dominated by algorithms and machine-learned clinical approaches, we