{"id":1929,"date":"2009-06-24T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/180.211.110.195:8082\/biestmilch\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:27:55","slug":"individualizing-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/individualizing-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Individualizing medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are working with a natural substance like <a title=\"Biestmilch\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/en\/news-highlights-new\/?no_cache=1&amp;cHash=22447c3fcb\">biestmilch<\/a> you are used to deal with the patient as an individual and not as a part of a statistical collective. Naturopathy usually tailors therapeutic regimen to the body, not so does medicine, neither therapy nor diagnostics. In medicine we turn into statistical probabilities in that moment we enter a clinic and get in touch with a physician. Of course, their are a lot of individualizing efforts in medical practices. But mostly they remain in the realm of talking and lack a frame of reference. They either cling to statistics still or drift to esotericism.<br \/> The video underneath is only the beginning of trying to bring more individuality into medicine. Whether it is a suitable model, only future can prove. It seems that this concept of individuality tries to ease the tension between the body as a statistical significant database and the deviant behavior of an individual.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"438\" height=\"371\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=25783474001&amp;playerID=2227271001&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/2227271001?isVid=1&amp;publisherID=981571807\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=25783474001&amp;playerID=2227271001&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"438\" height=\"371\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/2227271001?isVid=1&amp;publisherID=981571807\" flashVars=\"videoId=25783474001&amp;playerID=2227271001&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"videoId=25783474001&amp;playerID=2227271001&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It is the dream of the creators of this model that doctors could soon be testing medications or surgery on your virtual twin before you get to undergo the real treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Source: the <a title=\"New Scientist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/section\/health\">New Scientist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are working with a natural substance like biestmilch you are used to deal with the patient as an individual and not as a part of a statistical collective. Naturopathy usually tailors therapeutic regimen to the body, not so does medicine, neither therapy nor diagnostics. In medicine we turn into statistical probabilities in that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[27,678,676,500,611,677],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5904,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/5904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}