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. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, Choosing Wisely doesn’t emphasize the cumulative risk of these scans that involve ionized radiation.78–81 For example, a typical cardiology practice has its patients… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
