Why early detection technology and precision medicine are failing patients
The tools to detect serious disease years before symptoms appear already exist. What we are waiting on is a health care system structured to use them. Early in my career in primary care, I watched patients with vague symptoms and normal lab results get dismissed as anxious or mildly depressed. While some were, others were experiencing the very earliest stages of disease. Signals that more advanced diagnostics would have caught, …
Why early detection technology and precision medicine are failing patients
