Hospitals face a prisoner's dilemma with new medical technology. Prisoner's Dilemma is a game from the fifties where two prisoners in separate rooms decide whether to cooperate or betray the other. If both cooperate, they receive a mild punishment; if one betrays and the other does not, the traitor escapes without punishment and the other receives the harshest punishment. Hospitals can be "prisoners" in this dilemma. However, the public bears the punishment.[1][3]