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a16z Bio + Health #7: The Power of Patient Data with Anne Wojcicki

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Genetics

genetics is so interesting because you have the ability to understand what your inherent risks are. And i think that the health cure system like i think about also, we still run into today. Like if i show up at a medical centre with my atre fib report and i say, look, i'm genetically high risked for he fib, the doctors uniformly just turn me away. The practice of medicine is not around prevention. Most doctors are really trained not to think of em you know, the're their patients as being able to change their behaviour.

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