During the last years the discussion about the term “personalized medicine” grows rapidly. Despite it is often associated with an enhanced use of IT it also contains consequent critics of the limitations of evidence-based medicine and offers the perspective that the individual patient could possibly better be treated in future.
The question is, does personalized medicine contains the power of a paradigm shift in medicine. And that would depend on its ability to integrate or influence most medical and therapeutic disciplines.
Persoanlized medicine is “the right patient with the right drug at the right dose at the right time.” It is some kind of tailoring of treatment of the individual during their management of health problems (i.e. prevention, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up). Therefore I think as far as knowledge is available it could be used in every medical field.
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ScienceResearch/SpecialTopics/PersonalizedMedicine/UCM372421.pdf
Dear Hakan,
thank you for the included FDA paper. In principle I agree with your statement. but focussing on drugs would in consequence lead to a limitation, because there are a lot of other interventions available, discussed and empirical supported. And often in the current discussion about personalized medicine a very naturalistic perspective (primarily genetics) is chosen, despite the term personalized implies a first person perspective and therefor responsible patients.
In psychotherapy for example individualization/personalization is discussed since more than 50 years as well as an multiple perspectives integrating approach (e.g. bio-psych-social).
Regards Thomas.
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