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I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.
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.
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.
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.
About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.
Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.
Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.
Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.
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.
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.
It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.
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.
I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.
A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices- smartphones- by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.
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.
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.
The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.
The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.
Nick Dawson, a leader of the Society of Participatory Medicine, uses Evernote as his electronic medical record, pulling in data from sensors and sharing with providers or family members.64
For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
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?
