Quotes from Eric Topol

Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

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

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.'

For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.

The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform, ' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

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.

Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.

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.

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

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

When you're asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that involves? How many of those sorts of scans have you already had? Is it necessary? Is there an alternative? I don't think many people know about that.

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

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

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 a real threat to the medical profession.

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?

Eventually, doctors will adopt AI and algorithms as their work partners. This leveling of the medical knowledge landscape will ultimately lead to a new premium: to find and train doctors who have the highest level of emotional intelligence.

When you put together open medicine, open science, open access, open source, and open data—Open5—all sorts of new channels of research activity become available, and existing ones become exponentially more powerful.

David Cutler wrote in MIT Technology Review, "the single most unused person in health care" is the patient.

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." —THOMAS JEFFERSON

It's hard for most of us to accept that we are nine parts microbe and only one part human, at least as far as a count of our cells goes.

took ten years and $5 billion to sequence the first human genome, and now it takes less than twenty-four hours and costs less than $1,500.5

Eventually, each individual will not only own their data, but it will be secured in a personal cloud or system, with the owner granting rights for others to access. Now that's a flip.

The greatest opportunity offered by AI is not reducing errors or workloads, or even curing cancer: it is the opportunity to restore the precious and time-honored connection and trust

consumers find it easier to discuss costs with their pharmacist than to have to deal with their doctors.