From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sat Feb 15 2003 - 22:18:17 MST
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From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
> The only way medicine and lifespan extension science is going to
> make progress is to work its way out of the box that one size fits
> all. The best progress we might make is to acknowledge those situations
> in which an individuals perspective may indeed be valid. Should a
> physician reject a treatment with which one in a million lives
> might be saved?
### If you can predict exactly which patient will benefit, it's great, which
is why I am so eager to hear about any progress from US Genomics, or
Perlegen.
If you can't find the one-in-a-million guy, your NNT will be one million,
making the drug perfectly useless.
Hopefully, by the time I retire, we will have full diagnostic resequencing
of every patient's genome, so the latter situation would not occur.
Rafal
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