"This gives us the opportunity to really do patient-specific and individualized medicine, " Hollister said.

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For some, their passion may be tied to a specific industry, like medicine, or law, or science, but I tend to believe that for most their passion is tied to a desire, such as to lead, or to teach, or to help others.

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Elizabeth Lee Vliet, who has an Arizona-based internal medicine practice, says she tries to ask very specific questions, particularly about over-the-counter medicine usage.

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Both of these drugs are emblematic of avant-garde, precise, individualized medicine in which a specific genetic mutation in a patient is matched up with the action of the drug.

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There is also useful information and a few photos at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Web site and woman-specific information at the Women's Sports Foundation, a Web site founded by tennis legend Billie Jean King.

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Another way in which ENCODE could have an impact on medicine is simply by showing doctors what cells of a specific type look like on a molecular level.

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In medicine for example, doctors today have gone beyond specializing in a specific system of the body, but rather are hyper-focused on just one specific aspect of one part of that system.

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Until he is more specific, the fear must remain that the Republicans will deliver the spoonful of sugar but not the medicine, as they did under George W. Bush.

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