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Adjusting to a more collaborative style may take doctors some time, says Dr. Mark Boguski, but if they stop confining themselves to disciplinary boundaries, they'll be able to see connections between different areas of medicine that aren't taught in medical schools. Boguski draws on examples from oncology, where he says doctors are gradually being retrained to think in terms of disease pathways instead of discreet organ systems.

Dr. Boguski is the chief medical officer of Liberty Biosecurity and founder of the Precision Medicine Network. He's a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the College of American Pathologists and the American College of Medical Informatics. He's served on the faculties of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Harvard Medical School, and as an executive in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. He is the former vice president and global head of genome and protein sciences at Novartis, and a graduate of the medical scientist training program at the University of Washington in St. Louis. He has written a series of books on cancer for the general public, under the series title "Reimagining Cancer."

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That's it! Thanks so much.

Harry Glorikian: Welcome to the Moneyball medicine podcast,

Dr. Boguski: It's a pleasure to be here Harry.

Harry Glorikian: So, Mark I was reading that statement and when I hear a statement like that that I read at the top of the show I step back and I think systems biology, not necessarily disparate pieces. And so, it seems like over time if I go back to doctors, you know they'd look at the patient as a whole and now it looks like we're looking at them in pieces.

Dr. Boguski: It's actually worse than that you know when I was in medical school we actually did physical rounds on the patient - on the patients on our floor, you know we'd go around to the bedside and examine every one of them. Today people do rounds in a conference room sitting in front of their laptops and there's actually less patient interaction, than there used to be.

Harry Glorikian: You also say like it doesn't stop there, by looking at the bigger picture and not confining ourselves to disciplinary boundaries. We'll be able to make connections between different f