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Eric Topol

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Eric Jeffrey Topol is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author.

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Notable works: Acute Coronary Syndromes

About Eric Topol

Eric Jeffrey Topol is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine and Executive Vice-President at Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Eric Topol

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

Applied

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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.

Age

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Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

About

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The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

Accept

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I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

Bored

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We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they…

Connected

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Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

Community

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Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

About

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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…

Benefit

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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…

Adjusting

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If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer.…

Able

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“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…

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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…

About

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I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.

Apps

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It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

Blood

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Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

Age

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The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

Communication

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Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

Anything

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About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.

About

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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.

Been

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Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

Medicine

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When you're asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that involves? How many…

About

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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.

Cell

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The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

Ability

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Seeing your glucose every minute on your phone, it really changes your lifestyle. You ask yourself, 'Do I really need that piece…

Ask

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