Deep Medicine Quotes

“Eventually, doctors will adopt AI and algorithms as their work partners. This leveling of the medical knowledge landscape will ultimately lead to a new premium: to find and train doctors who have the highest level of emotional intelligence.”
― Eric Topol, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Eric J. Topol, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

“The greatest opportunity offered by AI is not reducing errors or workloads, or even curing cancer: it is the opportunity to restore the precious and time-honored connection and trust”
― Eric Topol, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

“the sugar industry has promoted the idea that a calorie is a calorie, and that eating a calorie’s worth of sweets is no more likely to make someone obese than any other food.”
― Eric Topol, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

“The greatest opportunity offered by AI is not reducing errors or workloads, or even curing cancer: it is the opportunity to restore the precious and time-honored connection and trust—the human touch—between patients and doctors. Not only would we have more time to come together, enabling far deeper communication and compassion, but also we would be able to revamp how we select and train doctors.”
― Eric Topol, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

“Perhaps less pernicious but still worrisome is reliance on “wellness” programs, which most medium to large employers in the United States have, despite the fact that, overall, they have not been validated to promote health outcomes. Typically, a wellness program combines step counting, weight and blood pressure readings, and cholesterol lab tests, as well as some incentive for employees to participate (such as a surcharge on an employee’s contribution to the cost of insurance). But wellness is poorly defined, and the cost effectiveness of such strategies has been seriously questioned.50 One way such programs could be improved, however, is through the use of virtual medical coaches, which could gather and make use of far more granular and deeper information about each individual.”
― Eric J. Topol, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

“retrospective studies are well suited for generating a hypothesis, then the hypothesis can be tested prospectively and supported, especially when independently replicated.”
― Eric Topol, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

“The promise of artificial intelligence in medicine is to provide composite, panoramic views of individuals’ medical data; to improve decision making; to avoid errors such as misdiagnosis and unnecessary procedures; to help in the ordering and interpretation of appropriate tests; and to recommend treatment.”
― Eric Topol, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again