“ When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams. ”
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.
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.
