{"id":58,"date":"2008-01-15T23:24:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T23:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/2008\/01\/15\/the-future-of-medicine-according-t"},"modified":"2008-01-15T23:28:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T23:28:05","slug":"the-future-of-medicine-according-to-dr-zerhouni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/2008\/01\/15\/the-future-of-medicine-according-to-dr-zerhouni\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Medicine, according to Dr Zerhouni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s Medical Student Newspaper recently ran a feature interview of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/about\/director\/index.htm\" title=\"Elias A. Zerhouni, NIH Director\">Dr Elias Zerhouni<\/a>, the big guy of that\u00a0obscenely cash-abundant\u00a0institution\u00a0just to the\u00a0northwest of D.C. Read the full piece of work <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medical-student.co.uk\/issues\/current\/files\/December2007Page%2018.pdf\" title=\"MS interview with Lord Ara Darzi &amp; Dr Elias Zerhouni\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing that caught my eye was the last part of the interview, when Dr Zerhouni was asked of his views on where the future of medicine lies. He replied:<\/p>\n<p><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>&#8220;Well, fasten your seat belt because it&#8217;s going to be fun. <\/em><\/font><\/span><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>Medicine is going to change more than ever; firstly its <\/em><\/font><\/span><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>knowledge content is going to improve tremendously. Also, <\/em><\/font><\/span><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>instead of being curative and intervening when patients are <\/em><\/font><\/span><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>sick you are going to have to intervene much before the disease <\/em><\/font><\/span><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>actually strikes. <\/em><\/font><\/span><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/font><\/span><span> <\/span><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>We will be in era of 4 P&#8217;s. <\/em><\/font><\/span><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/font><\/span><span><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>Predictive medicine,<\/em><\/font><\/span><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>Personalisation regarding genetic variation,<\/em><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span><font face=\"Calibri\">Pre-emption, the natural consequence of k<\/font><\/span><span><font face=\"Calibri\">nowledge, and finally<\/font><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><font face=\"Calibri\"><em>Participatory, the patients will be more involved in their own health care.&#8221;<\/em><\/font><\/span><span><font face=\"Calibri\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p>His words really got me very, very excited. Excited that the future holds so much promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s Medical Student Newspaper recently ran a feature interview of Dr Elias Zerhouni, the big guy of that\u00a0obscenely cash-abundant\u00a0institution\u00a0just to the\u00a0northwest of D.C. Read the full piece of work here. One thing that caught my eye was the last part of the interview, when Dr Zerhouni was asked of his views on where the future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}