"... Making medical decisions has been the physician's job, never our own. When we seek treatment, we often find ourselves lost, adrift in a poorly designed system that pushes us along quickly and officiously from the silo of one specialist to the next. We're told to always ask our doctors, but then we're consigned to less than 15 minutes of face time in an office visit. When we seek out information, we get lost in a muddle of contradictory studies and imprecise advice. ... ... By factoring in our family histories, our good and bad habits, and, ultimately, the conditions we need to ward off or treat, using a approach can maximize our efforts to push ill health, and ultimately death, as far into the future as possible. It's a powerful way to think about our health."