Eric Topol Quotes.
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.
Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.
A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices – smartphones – by the patient with computer assistance. So it’s a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.
I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I’m particularly susceptible.
About half of all people don’t take medications like they’re supposed to.
There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of ‘doctor knows best.’
It’s infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.
Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.
The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.
I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. ‘Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.’ So they’re looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything.
I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.
For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you’ve had is high cholesterol, what you’re doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it’s time the boundaries be taken down.
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people – one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.
For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.
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.
When I went to medical school, the term ‘digital’ applied only to rectal exams.
I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.
The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It’s obsolete.
For diabetes in particular, we know there’s a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn’t that be great?
