What if tomorrow we could slip a “health card” into a machine that said: “To find out if you have cancer, push 1. For Alzheimer’s Disease, push 2”! This is not as strange as it might seem. More than ever before, today’s genetic testing reveals our predisposition to specific diseases. But how does one live when one knows what they will die of?
Should we undergo preventative surgery to avoid having cancer, for example?