Precision Medicine Is Too White
Why the field lacks diversity, and how that can hurt everyone
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6 min readAug 26, 2019
Precision medicine has a bit of a “what can’t it do?” allure. Defined as “an approach for protecting health and treating disease that takes into account a person’s genes, behaviors, and environment,” it aims to help people get the right treatment, in the right dose, at the right time.
