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well, in medicine we'll soon have personalized/individualized-medicine. but you can't really have personalized/individualized societies, unless we all isolate
by nnq 13y ago
well, in medicine we'll soon have personalized/individualized-medicine.
but you can't really have personalized/individualized societies, unless we all isolate ourselves from each other and leave as ascets in caves :)
- kingkawn 13y agoYou can do population analysis, but thats valuable in terms of making population level decisions. Not decisions about individual care. An example being; where do we build a hospital. Not; which medication should we give this person. Right now we have universalized standards of care for things like hypertension that clearly do not work for the entire population yet we have accepted that x% improvement overall is the best. I think the future will involve identifying the subtleties of genetic and microbiome impact on all medications, and tailoring regimens based on those indicators rather than the EBM-based standards of care.