Eric J. Topol > 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 Hippocratic Oath is deadly silent on communication between doctor and patient relevant to the patient’s treatment.”
― 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

“the engaged patient the “blockbuster drug of the century.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“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

“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

“440,000 lethal, preventable events each year from care in hospitals, or “roughly one-sixth of all deaths that occur in the United States each year.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“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

“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

“second major driver of open knowledge has emerged. These are MOOCs (massive open online courses), which broadcast lectures to tens of thousands of people who have an Internet connection and want to sign up.”
― Eric Topol, The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

“It may just mean that the best way to cut the ever-increasing costs of health care around the world will be to provide cheap smartphones with Internet service to those who otherwise could not afford to buy them.”
― 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

“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