Word: customized
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...defiled some of the evidence. They allowed a funeral director to remove the corpse before a medical examiner arrived, preventing an exact assessment of the time of death. They never obtained a warrant to search the Skakel home. And conflicts of interest abounded. It was (and is) the custom in Greenwich for off-duty policemen to work as bodyguards or chauffeurs for wealthy residents. "In retrospect, we probably treated the Skakels differently," a cop later admitted to author Timothy Dumas. "We did a little soft shoe, proceeded cautiously so as not to offend anyone...
...humans will transform medicine--with new classes of drugs, new kinds of treatments and new definitions of disease based not on overt symptoms but on underlying genetic defects. Armed with a patient's genetic data, doctors may someday be able to diagnose diseases before they occur or prescribe medications custom-made to fit each patient's unique genetic profile...