Eric Topol
Eric Topol
Eric J. Topolis an American cardiologist, geneticist, and digital medicine researcher. Before moving to Scripps in 2006, Topol served as chairman of cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland Clinicand founded the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Topol was one of the first researchers to question the cardiovascular safety of rofecoxib, culminating in the drug's ultimate withdrawal from the market. Topol's advocacy on the subject led to what the New York Times described as an "unusually public dispute" with the Cleveland Clinic's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.
Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.
Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.
I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.
The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.
I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.
The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.
The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.
A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices- smartphones- by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.