Dear Doctor Biswas
A very interesting paper.
I think at present I would rather risk treatment based on strong evidence, even
though it may not apply to me as an individual; at least I have some idea of
the level of risk incurred.
My best guess is that leaving it to the doctor to personalise the treatment
means I have no way of estimating the risk ( what is the doctors knowledge
base,how up to date are they etc.) My reading of the history in this area
would suggest risk may be high. Perhaps this risk comparison is an area for
further study.
Yours sincerely John Platt
Quoting Rakesh Biswas <[log in to unmask]>:
> Wanted to share this article from our institute written in collaboration
> with colleagues from
> other institutes.
> Click on:
> http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2007.00837.x
>
> It begins as an autoethnographic reflection of an individual physician
> exploring the relationship between his largely qualitative day to day
> clinical activity
> with individual patients and population based average patient data
> (that is largely quantitative).
>
> Following this write up we have been inspired to work towards trying to
> leverage ICT
> for answering individual health information needs and are grateful to be
> able to keep
> learning from colleagues across multiple disciplines from the pure clinical
> to pure informatics.
>
> Another issue is much as one would love to publish open access we were
> compelled to publish with a closed access publisher as it is difficult to
> obtain organizational funding for
> the fee open access journals need (although they do give generous waivers on
> an individual basis).
> Interestingly even closed access journals seem to be catching on to the idea
> by offering
> individual authors the option to pay to unlock their own articles and make
> them open.However
> I have the provision to freely share the pdf full text if you are interested
> in reading the
> article.
>
> rakesh
>
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