We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
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It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.
There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?
In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate.
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.