The Patient Will See You Now Quotes

“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.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“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”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“David Cutler wrote in MIT Technology Review, “the single most unused person in health care” is the patient.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“consumers find it easier to discuss costs with their pharmacist than to have to deal with their doctors.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“there are over six thousand prescription drugs, but we only have pharmacogenomic information for just over one hundred”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“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”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“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.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“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.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“Nick Dawson, a leader of the Society of Participatory Medicine, uses Evernote as his electronic medical record, pulling in data from sensors and sharing with providers or family members.64”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“In 2011, there were over eighty-five million computerized tomography (CT) scans”
― Eric J. Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“This is not informed consent—it should be called “coercive consent,” as the patient is left with little viable or practical alternative. It’s just like the software upgrade download, but regarding a much more serious matter.”
― Eric J. Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“Back in 2012, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation along with Consumer Reports, a highly regarded independent, nonprofit consumer organization, introduced Choosing Wisely,68–77 an initiative to reduce unnecessary medical tests and cut costs. When Choosing Wisely was first announced, nine medical professional organizations published their lists of five tests and procedures that they deemed were unnecessary. Of these forty-five recommendations for unneeded tests, twenty-five (56 percent) were related”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“Furthermore, Choosing Wisely doesn’t emphasize the cumulative risk of these scans that involve ionized radiation.78–81 For example, a typical cardiology practice has its patients who”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“While some of these may represent true and meaningful advances, what have been called “scampaigns” are a new prospect.52–54”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“The staff of such a monitoring center could represent the future “hospitalist”—not likely to be called a “home-ist”—a physician particularly trained and adept at the interface of machines and people. You might describe them as geeks with compassion, not necessarily an oxymoron.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“a recent survey of sixty highly ranked United States hospitals asked their employees whether they’d feel comfortable receiving medical care in the unit in which they work. The response at more than half the hospitals was a resounding “No!”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“As we reviewed in Chapter 7, we will get away from keyboards in the office, also known as “death by a thousand clicks,” and replace them with computer processing of natural language into notes.98–100”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“Indeed, the data might even preempt the need for a “visit,” and when they do prove necessary, they will no longer be visits or appointments but informative, data-driven discussions. There”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“Half of American physicians are over age fifty-five, far removed from digital native status (under age 30) and any propensity for adopting little wireless devices for their practice of medicine. Nevertheless,”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“With all the drive to cost transparency, there is not only little emphasis to make quality-of-care data available, but also it is extremely hard to come by. That’s why the call of Guest and Quincy from Consumer Reports that “consumers should have better information about hospital and physician performance than they can glean from user reviews on Yelp, Zagat’s, Angie’s List, or other such sources” is such a tall order.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“As Eisenstein affirmed, the impact of books to alter the master-apprentice traditional relationship was quite clear, as people could “instruct themselves primarily from books with a minimum of outside help” and “cut the bonds of subordination which kept pupils and apprentices under the tutelage of a given master.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“Later in the 1700s, the preeminent economist Adam Smith actually wrote The Wealth of Nations in a coffeehouse, after having repeatedly circulated drafts for input among the regulars there. Beyond”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“Noted by McLuhan, “The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting, added much to the cult of individualism.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“In 2011, there were over eighty-five million computerized tomography (CT) scans and nineteen million nuclear imaging tests performed in the United States.42 How many of these millions of patients do you think had their radiation dose measured or discussed with them before the scan was performed? The”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“Statins, particularly potent ones, induce diabetes in at least 1 of 200 individuals treated.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“This brings home the saying and mantra for the future—“Nothing about me without me”—which should and will undeniably apply to individuals when they assume the role of IAPs.38”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“Sharing, transparency, and openness are all now fast-moving trends in medicine that have been potentiated by the digital infrastructure.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“an interconnected, instantaneous, molecule-to-manufacturer managed care system can tap science and save money.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“Intel Healthcare survey of 12,002 people from eight countries showed that more than 76 percent were willing to share health data anonymously.18”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“Wouldn’t it be amazing to have anonymous medical records available to all research doctors? Making our medical records open for sharing will save 100,000 lives a year.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands