Eric Topol Quotes
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.
Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.
Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.
The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.
For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.
There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.
The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform, ' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.
We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be a real threat to the medical profession.