This past month, I was rotating through a primary care pediatrics clinic. This was my first “real” experience with primary care. While I did shadow a physician in community internal medicine as a first-year student, I didn’t yet have the clinical decision-making skills by which to critically evaluate my experience. And so, this month has been […]
Who’s Your Daddy? Perils of Genomics in Medicine
We are at the start of the age of genomic medicine, and one of the possible concerns about genomic testing is that it can be used as a high fidelity form of paternity testing. Although instances of non-paternity may be quite high in certain groups, there hasn’t been a lot of discussion of actual cases […]
Will Big Data Change the Way We Practice Medicine?
Will “Big Data” change the way we practice medicine? I think you have to be crazy to answer in the negative on that question. The interesting question is where will we see the most change and how will it develop. Big data is powered by the fact that computing power and storage has become so […]
