Personalized medicine - impersonal BS.

Very interesting opinion in the article: The Op-Ed: Entering The Golden Age Of Big Data

 

Medicine is finally moving fully into the Information Age. Medical data is exploding and becoming increasingly digital. It is being aggregated and correlated in our Electronic Medical Records. All kinds of associations are waiting to be discovered in this mass of medical data we are suddenly aggregating.

 

And we are finally getting a chance to read our personal instruction manuals, i.e. our genomes, proteomes, communicomes, microbiomes, viromes… Doctors can now see a disease risk developing before patients even feel symptoms. And providers can use genetic data to custom tailor the right therapy, or even the right screening frequency.

 

Imagine a future where your physician knows you’re sick before you do or where personalized, genetics-based decisions about the effectiveness of a drug are predetermined using microchip technology or your stored genome in your EMR. This future is much closer than most people think. We can now know which drug is going to work best on an individual, or which embryo is carrying a fatal mutation, or which individual is benignly carrying an infectious agent or recessive genetic defect.

 

Well, the same mantra, the same intention to propaganda the main-stream. I do not know for what particular purpose but we have seen similar promises in connection with genome project etc. I think that this clever guy does not believe himself in what he is talking about. Otherwise he is not so clever...

 

And what about the following absolutely materialistic statement:

 

Medicine is becoming a Big Data problem. We are all just piles of carbon and oxygen and nitrogen. What makes us different is how those atoms are arranged and interact. This is Information. And it means therapeutic decisions must also be personalized, including the drugs to treat each individual’s unique illness and genome. Healthcare IT will lead us to this Golden Age. 

 

I am not just piles of carbon and oxygen and nitrogen - I would like to be something more, not only in material field. I do not need this kind of Golden Age imagined here - let me back to miself-designed future without bogus of personalized medicine!