Eric Topol Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.'”

“There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.”

“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.”