37 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.