Tiger BufordYour Orthopedic Industry Expert (free today)

The Future of Surgery will include Genome Mapping in all first world countries

7 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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Tiger Buford predicts genome sequencing will become routine before surgery in wealthy countries within ten years, letting doctors predict drug reactions and bleeding risks. But if surgeons skip the test and something goes wrong, they could face liability. Hospitals will have to balance safety, cost, and legal exposure.

In 10 years, if you go do any surgery, you're going to have a— they're going to, they're going to map your genome first. I think the chall—
I think the challenge will be, and some of the kind of more switched-on surgeons have said, hey, if you guys have got evidence of this and the test's available and we don't use it and someone has a reaction, then that opens us up to kind of challenges about our practices. Um, so I think our challenge as an organization is Not to be seen as ambulance chasers.