October 11-15, 6,200 researchers and clinicians met in Montreal for the 12th International Congress of Human Genetics. After my brain recovered from the long days of meetings, one panel discussion emerged as my favorite: what I thought was going to be a dull comparison of DNA sequencing technologies turned out to be a spirited look at Read More
Genetic Linkage
Personal Genome Sequencing: Too Much Information?
October 18, 2011
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Jul 26, 2014 11:08 PM EDT
This ia a good example of how out of touch MDs are with reality and how little they are taught in school. Medical schools must make genetics a big part of teaching medical doctors. Genetics has only started to dramatically change everything and will force the government to very soon switch to medicare for all. At the present time medical doctors are the slaves of the insurance corporations. Very soon doctors will type into their computer connected to a government website and read the genome and everything about a patient before they meet the patient waiting in the outer room.
- James L. Atwell
Jul 27, 2014 6:21 AM EDT
Thanks for your comment! I agree. This post is a few years old, and finally health care professionals are beginning to learn more genetics and genomics. The new edition of my human genetics is focused on these folks -- hope it helps!
- Ricki Lewis