Abstract
There has been considerable focus on the implications of the Human Genome Project for the day-to-day practice of medicine recently—both in the popular press and the medical literature. New research results are distilled into 10-second segments on the local evening news, and companies offering various forms of clinical genetic testing have embarked on direct-to-primary–care-provider and direct-to-consumer marketing of their wares. Although it is still not clear just what the impact of genomics will be on the diagnosis and treatment of many common diseases, one thing is clear: there is an urgent need to educate medical care providers about both the capabilities of and—probably more importantly—the limitations of “genomic medicine.”
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