The prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness are determined based on a patient's inherited disease profile, according to a rapidly expanding area of medicine called as "personalised medicine". Medical personnel can select the best drug or therapy for a patient and deliver it using the right measurement or regimen with the help of the patient's genetic profile. Diabetes-related illness: risk assessment and treatment, pharmacological personalization: new methodologies and consequences for the economy, applications of customised medicine for rare disorders, Health Translation implications of customised prescriptions for HIV therapy.
By modifying treatment to the patient's values as well as the doctor's own or by taking into account the patient's coping mechanisms and social environment, personalised medicine is more in line with traditional physician values like rapport building, gaining the patient's trust, clinical skills, and honouring the patient. An established source of healing, both psychologically and because it encourages early and correct diagnosis as well as effective treatment compliance, is a positive relationship with the treating physician.