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.
The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable. - Eric Topol
The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.
- Eric Topol
Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs. - Eric Topol
Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.
A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's … - 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 …
I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days. - Eric Topol
I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down. - Eric Topol
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily. - Eric Topol
I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses. - Eric Topol
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.
It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure. - Eric Topol
It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.
The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best. - Eric Topol
The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.
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