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Personalized Medicine

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Healthcare providers, in traditional medicine, will deliver one-size-fit-all model care for the public. However, in the future, personalized medicine or translational medicine focus on P4, including personalized, predictive, preventive, and participatory.

Every person should get the best treatment based on their health data. Healthcare providers can do prediction models for certain disease treatments. This is the main idea for Personalized Medicine.

If you were given the opportunity to participate in a medical research study that would extract your genetic data for the purpose of researching diagnostic data for a disease, would you be willing to participate?

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