Personalized Healthcare- the True Definition
Hippocrates once said: “It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than what sort of disease a person has.”
After 20 Centuries from when Hippocrates quoted the phrase, most of us physicians are still unable to implement it in our practice genuinely. Some may argue- the 1st-century concept is probably outdated in our technologically savvy era. Others may even take it further and assert that the definitions of disease and health perhaps may have shifted over time. Although there are many prevailing arguments about health, disease, and remedies around the last two, maybe one thing could not have changed much. Every medical care's quality and value are unique for every individual at a given point in time and place. And that no two clinical scenarios are identical because circumstances and individual variables are and will always be different. Therefore, whether a medical treatment is rendered twenty centuries ago or today, the definition shall not be varied unless intended for deliberate social engineering.
