Epidemiology

Epidemiology has the potential for both medical breakthroughs and serious barriers to the epidemiological control of disease, and the way we approach epidemiology in the future will determine which of these possibilities wins out. On the positive side, epidemiology will leverage new technologies. For example, genetic epidemiology will allow doctors to actually prevent disease by targeting individuals with genetic predispositions for certain diseases and then reducing their disease risk (Okasha, n.d.). On the other hand, the high percentage of specialization among physicians reduces the ability to diagnose a patient because it segregates the patient's treating physicians, and they compartmentalize the patient's symptoms. In the event of an infectious disease outbreak, epidemiology would fare better because of collaboration among medical profession

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