Eric Topol quotes
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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?”
-- Eric TopolSource : "Why doctors need to embrace their digital future now". Interview with Thomas Goetz, www.wired.com. January 31, 2012.
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“Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.”
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“I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.”
-- Eric TopolSource : Twitter post from Oct 18, 2012
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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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“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.”
-- Eric TopolSource : "New technologies put the patient first" by Lindsay Carlton, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2015.
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“Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.”
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“The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.”
-- Eric TopolSource : "Is personalized medicine a myth?" by Amanda Enayati, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2012.
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“I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.”
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“The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.”
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“It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.”
-- Eric TopolSource : "Beat High Blood Pressure". Interview with Steven Stiefel, www.menshealth.com. February 18, 2015.
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“Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.”
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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.”
-- Eric TopolSource : "Why doctors need to embrace their digital future now". Interview with Thomas Goetz, www.wired.com. January 31, 2012.
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“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 side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.”
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“For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.”
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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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“The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.”
-- Eric TopolSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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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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“The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.”
-- Eric TopolSource : "Will you have a heart attack? New test can possibly predict", www.eurekalert.org. March 21, 2012.
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“About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.”
-- Eric TopolSource : "Arphid Watch: Ingestable RFID pills" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. October 10, 2012.
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“Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.”
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“Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.”
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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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“Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.”
-- Eric TopolSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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