Geometric Medicine

Clinical Reasoning, Triage, and the Ethics of Allocation

Andrew H. Bond
Senior Member, IEEE · Department of Computer Science · San Jose State University

Spring 2026 · Book 8 of the Geometric Series

Front Matter

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments

Part I: The Problem (Ch. 1–3)

  1. Chapter 1: The QALY Trap
  2. Chapter 2: Triage as Forced Contraction
  3. Chapter 3: A Brief History of Medical Ethics, Geometrically

Part II: The Framework (Ch. 4–8)

  1. Chapter 4: The Clinical Decision Complex
  2. Chapter 5: The QALY Irrecoverability Theorem
  3. Chapter 6: Clinical Reasoning as A* Pathfinding
  4. Chapter 7: Clinical Heuristics and the Epsilon-Admissibility Spectrum
  5. Chapter 8: Informed Consent as Gauge Invariance

Part III: Clinical Applications (Ch. 9)

  1. Chapter 9: Clinical Geodesics in Practice

Part IV: The Ethics of Allocation (Ch. 10–12)

  1. Chapter 10: Pandemic Triage as Manifold Allocation
  2. Chapter 11: Vaccine Allocation, Organ Transplant, and the Geometry of Scarcity
  3. Chapter 12: The Clinical Bond Index and Structural Healthcare Injustice

Part V: Moral Injury (Ch. 13–15)

  1. Chapter 13: The Mathematical Theory of Moral Injury
  2. Chapter 14: Moral Injury in the Wild
  3. Chapter 15: Preventing and Repairing Moral Injury

Part VI: Horizons (Ch. 16–18)

  1. Chapter 16: AI in Clinical Reasoning
  2. Chapter 17: Measuring the Clinical Metric
  3. Chapter 18: Open Questions and the Frontier