Quotes from Eric J. Topol

For a few years when I was at Cleveland Clinic, it was on the top ten U.S. News list for geriatric medicine even though we didn't even have a geriatrics department!

This is not informed consent—it should be called "coercive consent," as the patient is left with little viable or practical alternative. It's just like the software upgrade download, but regarding a much more serious matter.

billion, representing almost half of all people and the vast majority of adults on the planet.4 And they're now sending over two trillion text messages a year.

In 2011, there were over eighty-five million computerized tomography (CT) scans

Medicine is remarkably conservative to the point of being properly characterized as sclerotic, even ossified.

The key to the problem is an empowered, knowledgeable patient, but as we shall see, extra information need not lead to empowerment. Whether

attack, and stroke among 17,800 patients randomly assigned to receive either Rosuvastatin or placebo for over four years. Source: P. M. Ridker, "Rosuvastatin to Prevent Vascular Events in Men and Women with Elevated C-Reactive Protein," New England Journal of Medicine 359 (2008): 2195–207.

Just as personal digital technologies have caused economic, social and scientific revolutions unimagined when we had our first few computers, we must expect and prepare for similar changes as we move forward from our first few genomes. —George Church1