GENE-BASED TREATMENT

What is the Future of Diagnostic Medicine?

The author subjects himself to genetic tests, scans and other high-tech diagnostics to report on how the trend toward â€personalized medicine†will affect us

What’s left of the General Tso’s chicken is on the coffee table. The sauce that eluded my mouth is congealing on my T-shirt. American Idol just started. And Megan, my fiancée of three days, is getting ready to swab the inside of my mouth with Q-Tips that are nearly as long as chopsticks. “OK, open that mouth,” she says. “Wider.” She is a doctor. I do as I’m told. “You know, these look like little Pap-smear brushes,” she muses. My mouth snaps closed. “C’mon, open up,” she says. I stall.

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