Eric Topol quotes

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)
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? View quote
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The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down. View quote
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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. View quote
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Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses. View quote
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The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable. View quote
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I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily. View quote
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Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages. View quote
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There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging. View quote
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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. View quote
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For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol. (Eric Topol)
The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete. View quote
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Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data. View quote
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The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine. View quote
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Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate. View quote
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Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything. View quote
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About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to. View quote
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Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs. View quote
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When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams. View quote
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It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure. View quote
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The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.' (Eric Topol)

Eric Topol

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Photo: Juhan Sonin, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Scientist
Born: June 26, 1954
Quotes count: 21