37 Quotes by Eric Topol

I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

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.

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.

Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

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

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

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

My view is that we're not ready for that.

There has been a series of blatant problems, ... This is the worst situation we've faced in decades at the FDA.