The Health Lottery: When Algorithms Decide Who Lives and Who Dies
When a nine-year-old boy's viral video exposes the deadly truth about medical AI, a community doctor must choose between a ten million dollar buyout and a revolution that could save thousands of lives.
Dr. David Martinez works in an East Oakland clinic where patients die from conditions that AI could diagnose in minutes-if they could afford the technology. While wealthy hospitals use advanced diagnostic systems that catch diseases early, community clinics rely on outdated equipment and educated guesswork.
When Carlos Gutierrez arrives with mysterious symptoms, David uses an underground AI network called HealthShare to save the boy's life. But their success attracts dangerous attention from MedCore Industries, the corporation that controls medical AI and will do anything to protect their fifty-thousand-dollar monthly subscription fees.
As David and his allies build a community-owned alternative that threatens the entire healthcare AI industry, they face legal attacks, media campaigns, and a corporate buyout offer that could make them rich-or destroy everything they've built.
From software architect Mahesh N comes a gripping medical thriller that explores the most urgent question of our time: Will artificial intelligence serve humanity, or will humanity serve artificial intelligence?
"The Health Lottery" reveals how communities can take control of life-saving technology when corporations put profit over patients. Based on realistic projections of current AI development, this story shows one possible path toward a future where geography doesn't determine who lives and who dies.
Book 1 in The Algorithm Wars series - where ordinary people fight for technological sovereignty in an AI-transformed world.
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