24-06-09

Individualizing medicine

If you are working with a natural substance like biestmilch you are used to deal with the patient as an individual and not as a part of a statistical collective. Naturopathy usually tailors therapeutic regimen to the body, not so does medicine, neither therapy nor diagnostics. In medicine we turn into statistical probabilities in that moment we enter a clinic and get in touch with a physician. Of course, their are a lot of individualizing efforts in medical practices. But mostly they remain in the realm of talking and lack a frame of reference. They either cling to statistics still or drift to esotericism.
The video underneath is only the beginning of trying to bring more individuality into medicine. Whether it is a suitable model, only future can prove. It seems that this concept of individuality tries to ease the tension between the body as a statistical significant database and the deviant behavior of an individual.

It is the dream of the creators of this model that doctors could soon be testing medications or surgery on your virtual twin before you get to undergo the real treatment.

Source: the New Scientist