Personalized medicine has been presented to the public and to the medical community with
much pomp and promise. Some of this enthusiasm is warranted. Genetic research has
begun to show why some medicines in some clinical circumstances are very effective for
some patients and dangerous or ineffective for others. These preliminary successes have
generated the belief that ultimately such research will yield a true science of medicine that is
both personal and precise. However, in this seminar, Burke et al. give physicians reason to …