Mike Snyder: Current medical practice is Byzantine and crude
Mike Snyder · a16z Podcast | How to Live Longer and Better · Jan 2, 2019 · at 6:29
Mike Snyder, precision health researcher, criticizes contemporary medical methods during an a16z podcast discussion on precision health.
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“I think the way we do medicine now is totally Byzantine. It's just really ridiculous how crude we are at what we do.”
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