Faculty Bibliography

Discovering the genetic variations that create profiles of risk and drive individual responses to drugs and vaccines has proven more difficult than many initially presupposed. Rhetoric about the prospect of personalized medicine has exceeded the ability to deliver on that vision. There also remain significant ethical and policy obstacles that may hinder the arrival of personalized medicine. The emergence of new prenatal genetic tests make the resolution of these ethical challenges imperative.

The results showed that many people who filled out the traditional form did not feel they fit within the five government-defined categories of race: white, black, Asian, Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native

For better or worse, the Democrats incorporated a good deal of mainstream Republican thinking about health care reform from the past decade, including mandated coverage and health insurance exchanges, into the Affordable Care Act

Caplan comments on the legislative restrictions and mandates on what doctors can say. Such third-party intrusions on the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship bode for both the trust patients have in their doctors and for doctors' ability to do what they deem is best for their patients. The exam room is too small to fit greedy corporate titans, gun nuts, religious zanies, and state officials alongside the doctor and patient. Allowing them to dictate medical practice is simply bad medicine for all of people