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- zio99 14y agoIt's more of a self-exam but this one caught my eye from what PG said earlier this year on ongoing medical diagnosis: One of my tricks for generating startup ideas is to imagine the ways in which we'll seem backward to future generations. And I'm pretty sure that to people 50 or 100 years in the future, it will seem barbaric that people in our era waited till they had symptoms to be diagnosed with conditions like heart disease and cancer. For example, in 2004 Bill Clinton found he was feeling short of breath. Doctors discovered that several of his arteries were over 90% blocked and 3 days later he had a quadruple bypass. It seems reasonable to assume Bill Clinton has the best medical care available. And yet even he had to wait till his arteries were over 90% blocked to learn that the number was over 90%. Surely at some point in the future we'll know these numbers the way we now know something like our weight. Ditto for cancer. It will seem preposterous to future generations that we wait till patients have physical symptoms to be diagnosed with cancer. Cancer will show up on some sort of radar screen immediately. (Of course, what shows up on the radar screen may be different from what we think of now as cancer. I wouldn't be surprised if at any given time we have ten or even hundreds of microcancers going at once, none of which normally amount to anything.) Source: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
- zio99 14y agoAnd a related article: Alzheimer’s shows up decades before symptoms: http://holykaw.alltop.com/alzheimers-shows-up-decades-before-symptoms http://holykaw.alltop.com/alzheimers-shows-up-decades-before...