Quotes by Eric Topol

Eric Topol

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.

Change

Real

Smartphones

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

Half

Medication

People

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

Age

Dark

Looks

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?

Glucose

Kidneys

Normal

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.

Benefits

Heart

People

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

Lows

Men

Results

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

Apps

Medication

These Days

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.

Knowing

Might

Sides

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

Bored

Enough

Information

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.

Heart

Real

Ultrasounds

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Apps

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Bored

Cancer

Cells

Change

Cocoons

Community

Consumers

Dark

Data

Doctors

Drug

Enough

Exposure

Glucose

Half

Hate

Heart

Humans

Information

Kidneys

Knowing

Lag

Listening

Long

Looks

Lows

Medical

Medical Profession

Medication

Medicine

Men

Might

Normal

Obsolete

Orbit

Parody

People

Phones

Physicians

Population

Pressure

Profession

Real

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Quotes by Eric Topol

Eric Topol

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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