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The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.
Eric Topol
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Eric Topol
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 26
Cardiologist
Geneticist
Rochester
New York
Eric J Topol
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Eric Jeffrey Topol
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The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.
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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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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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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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Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.
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Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.
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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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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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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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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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The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.
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