{"id":12443,"date":"2010-03-20T02:28:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T02:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/doctors-cannot-use-23andme-due-to-23andme%e2%80%99s-bad-faith-contract\/"},"modified":"2010-03-20T02:28:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T02:28:04","slug":"doctors-cannot-use-23andme-due-to-23andme%e2%80%99s-bad-faith-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/human-genetics\/doctors-cannot-use-23andme-due-to-23andme%e2%80%99s-bad-faith-contract.php","title":{"rendered":"Doctors CANNOT Use 23andMe Due To 23andMe\u2019s Bad Faith Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I had my way, every primary care patient in my office would have a genomic test. But, I can’t: the 23andMe contract explicitly<\/em> forbids its medical use.<\/p>

Again: I run a medical office. I can’t even legally<\/em> use my own<\/em> 23andMe report in my own<\/em> medical office for my own<\/em> health —let alone endorse its use for patients.<\/p>

Imagine this scenario: a patient comes into the medical office with a 23andMe report. The doctor uses the report to, for example, prescribe an alternative to Plavix because the patient is at risk for thrombosis but —like 17% of people and as warned by the FDA— the patient does not metabolize Plavix to its active form according to 23andMe.<\/p>

BOOM! That patient coerced that doctor into malpractice liability. Section 3 of 23andMe Terms of Service<\/a>: “The Services Content is not to be used, and is not intended to be used, by you or any other person<\/strong> to diagnose, cure, treat, mitigate, or prevent a disease or other impairment or condition, or to ascertain your health.”<\/p>

The worst of this is that 23andMe ACTIVELY INSTRUCTS its users to violate this clause —not only personally, but to also implicate their medical doctors<\/em> in crime.<\/p>

And the doctor is trapped: he can respect the law and alienate the patient, or ignore the law and appease the patient.<\/p>

That’s your “health empowerment revolution”: more kafkaesque legal games, more parasitic licensing contests, more marketing, more wasteful testing, and more money to a few celebrities while the people who actually learn the science and do the work get the blame and the bill.<\/p>

You know, I’m all for the hacker ethic. But if you hack the system, it has to be for the greater good —the greater<\/em> system. Otherwise, that hack is just called “evil” —and that’s what this entire 23andMe adventure looks like to me: garden-variety, ordinary, boring, stupid evil<\/em>.<\/p>

23andMe: We trusted you with beautiful work, and you mashed it into useless noise. That’s the real crime here.<\/p>

In fact, that’s why I’m in this horrible<\/em> business of medical practice management at all. Years ago, I trusted you to do the right thing. I thought that genomics would be obvious common practice for sure, and I wanted to be there when it was. But no. You had to play popular and fuck it up<\/em> for everybody.<\/p>

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