Instead, this week I spent at the CSHL ‘Genome Access’ course, the closed NIH meeting: “The Personal Human Genome’ and PMC’s meeting ’2009 Personalized Medicine’ conference (PHEW!). Boy, talk about how real scientists view the SNP, GWAS and related data versus how Medco and the pharrm industry views how they are going to control of all personal genomics – it is an amazing discrepancy!

I have written internal reports on my thoughts on these meetings and such, and am willing to be share these with you John for free if sense any value in that.

Thanks- Gerry

Bang on! And i share that feeling after returning from the conference. And it was good to meet you and share ideas. And as i said, i really appreciate your candor and your efforts to search out the innovators who are trying to invert the thinking!

btw , i got that same picture – right across the wrigley building.

It’s frustrating that so many in the health system can’t take off their binary-equation goggles that only allow them to see people as “sick” or “not sick yet.” That’s just NOT how real people view health . . . and precious few are taking that into consideration.

More need to understand it and try to empower the inevitable (IMHO) health revolution.

Thanks for the post – and cheer up. Even if it’s bloody along the way, we’ll get there.

I’m completely with you on the patient becoming the hope for future change. Educated patients are an incredible untapped resource, as long as we can come up with the etiquette and the channels for them contribute. I see great things coming out of the e-patient movement in this regard.

There are rays of sunshine, but many of them lie outside of the conventional healthcare establishment. The future lies in attracting talent from outside and putting them to work in ways that are unconventional, to the healthcare industry at least.