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.

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  Taken, Orbit, Cocoons

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• Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

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  Medicine, People, Population

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• I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.

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  Medication, These Days, Apps

  Twitter post from Oct 18, 2012

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• 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.

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  Change, Real, Smartphones

  "New technologies put the patient first" by Lindsay Carlton, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2015.

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• Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.

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  Phones, Cells, People

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• The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

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  Long, Physicians, Lag

  "Is personalized medicine a myth?" by Amanda Enayati, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2012.

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• I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

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  Bored, Information, Enough

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• The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.

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  Doctors, Parody, Humans

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• It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

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  Blood, People, Pressure

  "Beat High Blood Pressure". Interview with Steven Stiefel, www.menshealth.com. February 18, 2015.

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• Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

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  Dark, Age, Looks

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• There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.

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  Cancer, Years, Exposure

  "Why doctors need to embrace their digital future now". Interview with Thomas Goetz, www.wired.com. January 31, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Real, Heart, Ultrasounds

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• 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.

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  Knowing, Might, Sides

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• For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.

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  Men, Lows, Results

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• The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

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  Heart, Listening, Obsolete

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

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  Data, Information, Consumers

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• The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

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  Heart, Medicine, Long

  "Will you have a heart attack? New test can possibly predict", www.eurekalert.org. March 21, 2012.

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• 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?

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  Kidneys, Normal, Glucose

  "Why doctors need to embrace their digital future now". Interview with Thomas Goetz, www.wired.com. January 31, 2012.

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• About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.

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  People, Half, Medication

  "Arphid Watch: Ingestable RFID pills" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

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  Hate, Community, Drug

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• Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

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  Medical Profession, Medical, Profession

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• 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.

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  Heart, People, Benefits

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• Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

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  Medicine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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