Question 3

(Essay)

The age of precision medicine comes with many legal and ethical issues.Evaluate the current hurdles to personalized medicine becoming common place.

Answer

There are several hurdles that precision medicine must overcome to be more accessible.One is the logistics of storing and readily accessing the medical records and genomic information of patients.Very few hospitals and practitioners currently have the information technology to handle the data.Second is the legal and ethical issues that surround patient confidentiality and the sharing of records to improve the accuracy and usefulness of precision medicine.