Due to the surge in popularity of personally suited medicine, individually tailored treatments for an individual’s genetic makeup are gaining popular ground. Personally I think there are significant benefits to individually designed treatment with very few disadvantages.
Personalized medicine has a huge advantage over traditional system of medicines. Not only is it time saving but also more effective than traditional medicines. As in personalized medicine only one particular person is treated in contrast to huge number of patients, there is a huge time benefit as results will come out faster. Also, as personalized medicine is designed for only one individual, it has a very high efficiency as it is only for that particular person in comparison to traditional medicine which is designed to suit huge masses.
On the other hand, as personalized treatment requires a personal doctor, hiring such doctor might be quite expensive, thus not affordable by people of the lower or middle class. This makes it only useful for people who can afford the costs of a hugely limiting it’s benifits as people of lower class and middle class suffer the most from inefficient medicine system rather than upper class people.
In conclusion, although personalized treatment has some drawbacks its advantages hugely counterbalance the disadvantage. Because the inaccuracy of widely available medicine is almost not existent in personalized medicine as it is designed to suit for only one person’s medical needs.