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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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Eric Topol
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 26
Cardiologist
Geneticist
Rochester
New York
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