Our week of "Greatest Hits" episodes from the vault concludes with this conversation from the episode discussing the inaugural Innovations in Clinical Care - Barcelona (or INCBCN) conference that convened this past May. This conversation reviews two controversies about the meaning of patient empowerment that arose at the conference.
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This conversation comes from our review of the conference. The discussion itself is triggered by Roger Green's question about controversies at INCBCN 2022 and addresses two issues. The first is the ongoing controversy over what to call the disease itself. The second addresses the concept of biohacking, which either empowers patients by providing them with extensive data for self-management or disempowers them by divorcing the individual patient's interpretation of this data from disease understanding.