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Eric Topol
American
Scientist
Great
Heart
Long
Medical
People
You
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When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.
Eric Topol
School
Digital
Exams
Only
Term
Medical
Medical School
Applied
Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.
Eric Topol
Anchored
About
Data
Only
Consumers
Genetic
Handle
Personal
Getting
Information
Oriented
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.
Eric Topol
Time
Strength
Me
Heart
Looking
Patient
Tell
Valve
Pocket
Allowed
Share
Instead
Device
Look
Real
Tested
Normally
Listen
Real Time
Anything
Them
Use
Your
Who
Portable
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
Dark
Back
Dark Ages
Like
Look
Instrument
Chemotherapy
Going
Just
Blunt
Ages
Medieval
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.
Eric Topol
People
Medicine
About
Still
Treating
Treatments
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.
Eric Topol
Great
You
Heart
People
Diabetes
Benefit
High
High Cholesterol
Had
Taking
Doing
Heart Disease
Disease
Getting
Cholesterol
Who
Chance
There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.
Eric Topol
Year
Percent
Repetitive
Cancers
Estimates
Exposure
Each
Each Year
Imaging
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.
Eric Topol
You
People
Think
Those
Scan
About
Had
Do You Know
Know
Involves
Sort
Alternative
How
How Much
Asked
Much
Radiation
Many
Nuclear
Necessary
I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.
Eric Topol
Love
Enough
Easily
Bored
Never
Get
Information
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