Eric Topol Quotes

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

For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

~ Eric Topol

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

~ Eric Topol

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

~ Eric Topol

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

~ Eric Topol

We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be a real threat to the medical profession.

~ Eric Topol

Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

~ Eric Topol

I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

~ Eric Topol

The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

~ Eric Topol