As Michael Crichton states: “The physician as lifestyle expert, as well as wellness advisor, has already begun to appear. And increasingly, as medicine develops predictive procedures and genetic profiles, the doctor will be able to use technology as a preventive rather than a curative measure to administer tests. For example, tailor preventive measures for individual patients with the same specificity with which he or she now dispenses medications for disease.” This is the key, the missing link. Until now, physicians have lacked the implementation of this information, at least in a manner where they could prescribe with confidence. After 22 years of.
