I believe there is room for another proposal:-) Since more than 46% of the population readily uses CAM including other formalized systems of medicines, chronic, incurable diseases, particularly of the autoimmune type rise by 200% in the US annually and costs associated with modern/western medicine are becoming increasingly out of reach for many people, I would ask you to consider other viable alternatives.

The Team leader- patient
Physician
Other Doctor of medicine – albeit Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic, Holistic, Chiropractic, etc.

Cost management and other accommodations are usually made by family. In the US, however, this might simply be friends.

I could also argue that genetic counseling is optional. Since many times, there is nothing that can be done and many medical doctors and researchers alike argue that its costs exceed its present worth to patients for many reasons. In some cases, maybe I would agree.

Perhaps, our greatest health asset and team member is ourselves and life practices that cultivate ourselves and prevent illness. Midst modernity, it is paradoxical that we need to be taught how to live properly, breathe and eat properly.

One other aspect you might not have considered that will ultimately affect global healthcare practices, too, will be cost and the increasing need for low-cost, low technological methods of healing for portability and sustainability.

As many have surmised within Chinese medicine for thousands of years, the basis of all illness is based upon type of constitution (genetics) and level of adaptability. While many doctors and researchers are validating Chinese medicine as molecular medicine through laboratory means, its individualized treatments and evidence-based results reflect this. In this aspect, perhaps, modern/western medicine runs parallel in its quest for individualized or personal medicine.

Of course, there are other factors that filter into the health perspective and global health equation, but for 80% of the world today, the team I proposed is the “dream team.”

Namaste, Debra 湘君