A naive solution is to get a second opinion. However, a second doctor is also incentivized to diagnose you ill!
Why is this? They don’t get paid more for treatment. What’s wrong with paying one doctor to recommend a treatment and then paying a second to enact it?
There was a post a while back (by Eliezer I think) about separating diagnosis and treatment and how that would help align the incentives, but now I can’t find it.
The problem with this solution is that the doctors can precommit to always diagnosing ill through acausal trade, so that they are rewarded in the case that they are the one who is randomly chosen for treatment (assuming they know the game).
Why is this? They don’t get paid more for treatment. What’s wrong with paying one doctor to recommend a treatment and then paying a second to enact it?
There was a post a while back (by Eliezer I think) about separating diagnosis and treatment and how that would help align the incentives, but now I can’t find it.
The problem with this solution is that the doctors can precommit to always diagnosing ill through acausal trade, so that they are rewarded in the case that they are the one who is randomly chosen for treatment (assuming they know the game).