Health Management Technology January 25, 2018
This is a tale of two patients—each of whom experienced very different outcomes. I’m going to refer to them as “Patient A” and “Patient B.”
Patient A was a 70-year-old woman from Nevada who returned to the U.S. with an infected swelling in her right hip after a long stay in India1. The infection was “resistant to all available antimicrobial drugs” and she unfortunately died shortly afterward.
Patient B was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer2. Thanks to groundbreaking research on human genome sequencing by TGen3, a nonprofit biomedical research institute, doctors could offer a three-drug cocktail—which put this deadly cancer into remission. They achieved this through the use of precision medicine—a nascent but growing medical discipline that customizes patient...
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