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Our health care and attention system is crippled by needy efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the countrywide Medicare budget - practically $175 billion - is spent on the final year of life, and another of this amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such initiatives betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about medical: we squander resources on hopeless situations, instead of using them to actually improve health. In Predictive Health, recognized doctors Kenneth Brigham and Michael M.E. Johns propose a solution: invest before - and use knowledge and technology to make medical more available and affordable. Every child would begin life with a post-natal genetic display screen, when potential risk - say for type II diabetes or heart disease - would be found. More data on biology, patterns, and environment would be captured throughout her life. Using this information, health-care workers and people they look after could forge personal approaches for healthier living long before a small glitch blows up into major disease. This real health care wouldn't just replace a lot of modern disease care and attention - it would make it outdated. The result, corresponding to Brigham and Johns, will be a life identified by an extended stay at top physical and mental form, rather than an early optimum and long drop. Accomplishing this goal will demand new tools, new treatment centers, fewer doctors and much more mentors, smarter companies, and engaged patients. In short, it will require a revolution. Because of a decade-long collaboration between Brigham, Johns and others, it has already been underway. A good plan for minimizing or eliminating many serious diseases as well as reforming our faltering medical system, Predictive Health is a deeply knowledgeable, deeply humane proposal for how we can reallocate expenses and resources to lengthen the best many years of life, rather than increasing the worst.
