segunda-feira, julho 16, 2012

Mongo e a Medicina

"Chapter Two, titled “The Orientation of Medicine Today,” describes how today’s “evidence-based” medicine is designed to treat large populations instead of individuals, which is incredibly ineffective and wasteful.
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Chapter Ten, “Rebooting the Life Science Industry,” describes how this industry, which includes pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology, medical devices, and diagnostics, needs to shift from its business model of getting the FDA to approve drugs and services that are designed to fit general populations instead of specific individuals.
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Chapter Eleven, “Homo Digitus and the Individual,” concludes the book by explaining how all of the converging innovations will enable medicine (a) to shift its focus from populations to individuals and (b) toward promoting prevention and precision. Author Topol sees a steady demise of hospitals and clinics, much like the bricks and motor bookstores. He also warns that there will be an adverse reaction from those who insist on the old ways, like reading a paper newspaper. But like the doctor’s house call in antebellum days, that way will be “gone with the wind.”"
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Mongo está em todo o lado, chega a todo o lado.
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Os eficientistas e as corporações apreciam o fenómeno da concentração da medicina em mega-instituições... tão ao jeito do século XX:



Trechos retirados de "The Creative Destruction of Medicine" via André Cruz


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