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Fortune
Siva Somayajula

The DOGE-fueled firing of AI experts at the FDA endangers lives and worsens the hospital crisis

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As the Trump administration takes sweeping actions to try to improve government efficiency, unexpected side effects are arising. One of those directly impacts my field, health and medical technologies. Those of us in this industry find ourselves with a dramatically slower process for getting government approval to bring life-saving tools to the market.

This was surely unintended, and reports suggest that the government may now be scrambling to undo some of the damage. It must be rectified quickly.

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