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Diagnosis and Treatment as One2025-04-07
“If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.”
—Teri Garr
Diagnosis has to be done as much as possible precisely, quantitatively, and with the acknowledgment that it reflects the situation at that moment in time. It can change in the future as the individual and the environmental factors (including treatments) evolve. When that does not happen, and the diagnosis is imprecise, qualitative, and viewed as a permanent label, it becomes iatrogenic. Even when precise and correct, diagnosis without remedy and mitigation can be worse than no diagnosis, it can cause a nocebo effect.
For that reason, with our blood biomarker testing we’ve put risk scores and the personalized matching of medications (and nutraceuticals) in the same report, so it is actionable intelligence. Same thing for our digital screening for social determinants, where personalized life improvement insights are provided. In the end, it is the treatment, the actions taken to restore health, improve wellness, and minimize risk, that matter- more than the diagnosis, which is a starting point, not the destination.
In conclusion, diagnosis without the hope of a curative treatment is often avoided by people. The good news is that there is almost always a good treatment that you are a match for, you just need (artificial or human) intelligence and precision medicine to enable that personalized match. A vast array of existing treatments, medications, nutraceuticals, lifestyle changes, and psychological interventions exist. Matchmaking is the key.