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My personal take on precision medicine is that before we can truly scale it up, we need to properly understand and treat organisms as _systems_. Thus, no precis
by samuell 3y ago
My personal take on precision medicine is that before we can truly scale it up, we need to properly understand and treat organisms as _systems_. Thus, no precision medicine without systems medicine.
Systems medicine too is a thing, so the thought is not unique as such. But I just feel there is way too little focus on systems level understanding.
I'm sure there are some counter cases to this, like some examples in the video, where there were some very "simple" treatment solution to a problem. But I think this will not always be the case, and probably in many situations one might need to turn more than one knob in the system to make it "just right" again. At the same time, the knowledge based approach he took to help his son of course kind of embedded a lot of systems understanding in the knowledge bases, so it is perhaps not a complete counter case either.