Top 15 Eric Topol Quotes

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

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

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

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.

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.

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

It’s infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

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.

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?

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It’s obsolete.

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of ‘doctor knows best.’

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.

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

Seeing your glucose every minute on your phone, it really changes your lifestyle. You ask yourself, ‘Do I really need that piece of cake? No, because I don’t want to stress out my pancreas.’