The Pathologies of Precision Medicine

December 13, 2024

ECG, HR monitor

(The Hedgehog Review) – Related to, and compounding, those and other problems is a consequential and arguably insidious paradigm shift—one that is moving medicine away from the guiding imperatives of patient care and the cure of illness to an overriding concern with the prediction of health risk, an approach dubbed, with no trace of modesty or irony, precision medicine. This shift is evident in the explosion of interest in technologies that not only help people manage diseases they currently have but also make it possible for people to monitor themselves for signs of diseases they might develop in the future. (Read More)