Meeting Dr Jonah

摘要

"Take two of these and call me in the morning", was once the ritual utterance of the doctor at the bedside and for hundreds of years that was more or less the extent of the predictive power of our knowledge of the human body. Yet today, the extent of our ability to measure the human body and predict its behaviors has moved into unthinkable realms, and we need new rules to manage the ownership of that knowledge and the journeys that it takes. Over the past few decades, we have imposed restrictions on who can access information about our bodies, but we are faced today with unimaginably greater complexity in managing this information that is beginning to be captured in real time and potentially across continents. We need a new global scheme for creating controls in what is currently a Wild West of medical information.