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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Hand Surg Am. 2018 Jan 12;43(4):312–320.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2017.11.005

Table 5.

Patient Quotations on a Random Decision

Quotation Patient (Most Recent Treatment)
“[The surgeon] gave me the choice of not doing anything, having pins and plates put in my arm, or put on the outside of my arm. So I said, ‘Yeah, why don’t you make that decision, I can’t do it.’ And he said, ‘Well, we’ll let the computer pick’, so he did and it picked the outside of the arm.” 72-y.o. female (External Fixator)
“I think there was 4 different choices, or I could opt to have the computer choose which was right for me. I had the computer choose because I had no idea what everything was.” 79-y.o. female (Percutaneous Pinning)

y.o., year old