Occupation: Cardiologist Birth: 1954
I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days..
The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable..
I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily..
For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So….
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses..
A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's ….
Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs..
For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol..
Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate..
About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to..
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down..
The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best..
It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure..
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 you….
The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine..
Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything..
Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data..
The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete..
Medicine is incredibly ritualistic..
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages..
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 s….