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Review
. 2016 Oct 25;7(1):23.
doi: 10.1186/s13167-016-0072-4. eCollection 2016.

Medicine in the early twenty-first century: paradigm and anticipation - EPMA position paper 2016

Olga Golubnitschaja  1 , Babak Baban  2 , Giovanni Boniolo  3 , Wei Wang  4 , Rostyslav Bubnov  5 , Marko Kapalla  6 , Kurt Krapfenbauer  6 , Mahmood S Mozaffari  2 , Vincenzo Costigliola  7
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Medicine in the early twenty-first century: paradigm and anticipation - EPMA position paper 2016

Olga Golubnitschaja et al. EPMA J. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Advantage; Implementation; Individualised medicine; Limitation; Person-centred medicine; Personalised medicine; Precision medicine; Predictive, preventive, and personalised medicine; Stratified medicine; Traditional complementary alternative medicine.

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“Precision” itself does not guarantee for better understanding of an issue. An old wise dictum adopted by all European cultures/languages warns—one cannot see the forest for the trees. Hence, technologically driven higher resolution of individual elements does not automatically mean that you can better recognise the complex problem which you are looking for, particularly when the zoomed element (the tree) is prioritised and/or pulled out from the overall context or zooming itself makes the complete picture (the forest/multifactorial issue) unreadable. Contextually, better understanding of the complexity in medicine is not guaranteed by “precision medicine” itself. Advanced health care demands a close cooperation between all issue-related fields, integration of multidisciplinary knowledge and innovative technologies based on long-term strategies and concepts considering interests of patients, professionals and society at large
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Paradigm shift from “reactive” to “predictive, preventive and personalised medicine”
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