For diabetes in particular, we know there’s a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn’t that be great? Eric Topol Read Quote
I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. ‘Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.’ So they’re looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything. Eric Topol Read Quote
When you’re asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that involves? How many of those sorts of scans have you already had? Is it necessary? Is there an alternative? I don’t think many people know about that. Eric Topol Read Quote
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing – which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out – that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over. Eric Topol Read Quote
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people – one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses. Eric Topol Read Quote
The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine. Eric Topol Read Quote
