37 Quotes by Eric Topol

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

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.'

When you're asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that involves? How many of those sorts of scans have you already had? Is it necessary? Is there an alternative? I don't think many people know about that.

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

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

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

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

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.