The greatest flaw in modern medicine isn’t poor research or bad incentives — it is the very structure of the system itself: medicine divided by organs. Because we rarely understand the true causes of disease, we wait for symptoms, give diseases symptom-based names, and treat only what we can see. Organ specialists inherit this logic, leading patients with a single underlying cause to receive multiple diagnoses and fragmented care.
Rare diseases offer a glimpse of what medicine should look like: clearly defined by their genetic mechanism, diagnosed precisely, and understood as one disease with many manifestations. The same principle is now emerging in oncology, immunology, and asthma, where traditional organ boundaries are beginning to collapse.
This episode marks the turning point from the crisis of medicine to the revolution ahead — and summarizes the core theses of Part 1: failing drug development, flawed research, chronic disease, wrong incentives, stagnating life expectancy, late detection, and symptom-based treatment. From here, true mechanism-based medicine begins.
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