Quotes from 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 has taken so long to do the sequencing - which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out - that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over.

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

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

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

Seeing your glucose every minute on your phone, it really changes your lifestyle. You ask yourself, 'Do I really need that piece of cake? No, because I don't want to stress out my pancreas.'

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.

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

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 with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything.