This comment was posted from my phone, and I think I should clarify two things:
1. Matt is one of two classmates that I remember from that high school. I switched schools for the last two years, didn't integrate well, and was recovering from an injury for half of my senior year. But Matt was friendly, and loaned me a book about C++, which I eventually mailed back to him.
The other person was a neighbor. His name was Chris, and he had a nicely-restored orange truck.
2. The problem is not with "precision medicine", but with medicine itself. The name of this project implies that they're going to turn medicine's hunting rifle into a sniper rifle. But conventional medical practice has inherited a bunch of assumptions that are basically wrong. Standard medicine's "rifle" is just a crummy old shotgun that's lucky to hit anything.
If you get shot in the head, go to the trauma center - they do good work, and can possibly save your life. If you have a chronic disease, get a dozen second opinions, including from non-medical doctors. If you have a psychiatric problem, avoid psychiatrists as if your life depends on it: conventional psychiatry is a disaster-in-progress.
The precision medicine effort is an opportunity to clean Medicine's house. The drug companies won't be happy when their businesses wither away, but maybe the lawyers will help them go quietly into the night.