Insurance is just a one part of the problem. Large practices have treatment standards on which physicians are evaluated. Reporting side-effects might be politi

Insurance is just a one part of the problem. Large practices have treatment standards on which physicians are evaluated. Reporting side-effects might be politically inconvenient in some cases. Medicine is also, like other human endeavors, subject to fashions and fads. At best, applying machine learning to health records will generate a hypothesis that must be checked in a properly controlled trial.