The Creative Destruction of Medicine Quotes

“But there are also several potential problems. One example is interpretation of medical jargon, such as the frequent use of “SOB,” for shortness of breath, which could be taken by the patient to mean something altogether different in reading the statement “the patient appears SOB.” And then there’s NERD, which actually means “no evidence of recurrent disease.”
― Eric J. Topol, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

“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!”
― Eric J. Topol, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

“The key to the problem is an empowered, knowledgeable patient, but as we shall see, extra information need not lead to empowerment. Whether”
― Eric J. Topol, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

“In other words, consider the new findings null and void unless you are thoroughly convinced that the evidence is compelling. I”
― Eric J. Topol, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

“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”
― Eric J. Topol, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

“Medicine is remarkably conservative to the point of being properly characterized as sclerotic, even ossified.”
― Eric J. Topol, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

“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.”
― Eric J. Topol, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

“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.”
― Eric J. Topol, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care