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GRIDLOCK germinated in a flight from San Francisco to Florida. The isolation of that cross-country trip with recycled jetliner air led to ruminations over my work in a New York hospital.

While updating computer networks in Beth Israel Medical Center, I saw firsthand how biology and computers were converging. Petri dishes and microscopes were being replaced with databases and computer workstations. All quite ho hum.

But no. It was the dawn of personlized medicine. And I hadn't heard a whisper about it. Even fewer knew the human genome was being decoded.

The advancement came like a tidal wave ... steadily reshaping everything in its wake. Mainstream practices would soon become ancient history. The digital revolution had wound its way to the doc ...more

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Jude Wagner Journal Entry - My trek is as perilous as an 1849er gold digger

Buried beneath buildings such as the Transamerica Pyramid were the scraps of tall ships from 160 years ago. The 1849ers who had rushed to California to find gold in the Sierra foothills, left everything behind—even their ships. The ships’ graveyards became the Financial District. And those dreams have been passed on to today.Alvin Ziegler Read more of this blog post »
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Alvin "Alvin Ziegler's GRIDLOCK is just what the Dr. ordered for any reader looking for a fast-paced thriller that features hard science and up-to-the-minute medical research. Give this a read! You won't be sorry."
--Seth Harwood, Author of JACK WAKES UP

"The gene-based medicine in GRIDLOCK is real and happening now. This tectonic shift in healthcare redefines how we predict and treat human disease."
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