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Andrew Bomback

Andrew Bomback is a physician and writer. He is the author of You’re Too Wonderful To Die, a novel (Flame Books, 2007), and Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension Essentials, a textbook (Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2010). His essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Hobart, Essay Daily, Harlequin, BULL, For Every Year, Pharos, New England Journal of Medicine, and Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Sept/Oct 2016

The Search

By Andrew Bomback

1 My hospital—in fact, my entire university—has a new research mission: precision medicine. The other term for this is personalized medicine. Regardless of terminology, the goal is clear. Using advances […]