Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.