Futureproof Extra: The End of Medicine As We Know It
If you have acute migraines, your doctor might refer you to a neurologist.\n\nIf your Asthma is really bad, maybe you\u2019ll be sent to a respiratory specialist. \n\nThey will then use their expertise to alleviate your symptoms but crucially they won\u2019t be able to tell you what is causing your illness because frankly, they don\u2019t know.\n\nSo, what if the ultimate cause of these ailments isn\u2019t happening in the brains or the lungs but elsewhere? Doesn\u2019t that present a problem for how our medical system operates?\n\nThe resounding answer is yes according to Professor Harald Schmidt who is Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Personalized Medicine at the University of Maastricht and author of 'The End of Medicine as We Know It and Why Your Health Has a Future'. He joins Jonathan to discuss.