Personalized Medicine Gone Wrong

Personalized Care in a Digital World

Nothing like a cartoon to use humor to illustrate a really important point. We have to be careful that personalized medicine doesn’t make medicine less personal. Also, a great reminder that technology should assist the doctor and not replace it. Technology doesn’t have common sense.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

1 Comment

  • That’s pretty funny. Unfortunately, it’s not too far from the truth. My mother-in-law died from lung cancer. At stage 4 they still had her on a statin for her cholesterol. No kidding. I had her stop taking it along with a few other odds and ends.

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