Access Quote by Eric Topol

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

— Eric Topol

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

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

— Eric Topol

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

— Eric Topol

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

— Eric Topol

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

Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

— Eric Topol

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

— Eric Topol

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

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

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

“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