Personalized medicine recognizes that each of us may be different from every other individual. Where those differences are discovered, it seeks unique therapies. What I call “cookbook medicine” urges doctors to treat all patients with similar symptoms the same way. It implicitly assumes we are all alike.
Personalized Medicine Versus Obamacare
Also published in Forbes Mon. October 13, 2014
John C. Goodman is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis and President of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research.
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