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. ”

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

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. ”

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages. ”

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

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs. ”

About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to. ”

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. ”

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? ”

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily. ”