http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2008/04/21/personalized-medicine-back-to-the-future/ The Next Generation of Health Care Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:55:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2008/04/21/personalized-medicine-back-to-the-future/#comment-333 Our Own System » Blog Archive » Learning by Surfing: Issue 2 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:07:33 +0000 http://crossoverhealth.wordpress.com/?p=169#comment-333 [...] Scott Shreeve on the personalization of medicine: So lets start this out by talking about the personalization of medicine. This is typically thought [...] [...] Scott Shreeve on the personalization of medicine: So lets start this out by talking about the personalization of medicine. This is typically thought [...]

]]> http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2008/04/21/personalized-medicine-back-to-the-future/#comment-332 Maxine Thomas ,MD Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:47:08 +0000 http://crossoverhealth.wordpress.com/?p=169#comment-332 Current market forces still encourage specialization;the practice of which limits doctors to "parts" oriented solutions as a natural consequence of the myopia that it causes. It also prohibits prevention and relegates doctors to perpetually "looking for cures." FP is the only specialty that truly has the ability to connect-the-dots and recognize that patients are whole people and finally allow the possibility of prevention as well as recognizing that specialists have been providing advice about what turns out to be the same thing taking place in different body parts. We call them co-morbidities, but they are really often the same thing. Current market forces still encourage specialization;the practice of which limits doctors to “parts” oriented solutions as a natural consequence of the myopia that it causes. It also prohibits prevention and relegates doctors to perpetually “looking for cures.” FP is the only specialty that truly has the ability to connect-the-dots and recognize that patients are whole people and finally allow the possibility of prevention as well as recognizing that specialists have been providing advice about what turns out to be the same thing taking place in different body parts. We call them co-morbidities, but they are really often the same thing.

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