The Patient Will See You Now - The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands

Eric Topol

Eric Topol

Publié par Basic Books, le 25 octobre 2016

375 pages

Résumé

A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery : you make an appointment months in advance, wait for several hours when you arrive, talk to a doctor for fifteen minutes, then wait longer for lab tests, the results of which you'll likely never see unless they indicate more invasive tests are needed, most of which will probably prove unnecessary—and your bill will be astronomical. In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, shows why medicine does not have to be that way. Instead, you could use your smartphone to get rapid test results from one drop of blood, monitor your own vital signs, and use an algorithm to receive a diagnosis without having to see a doctor at all, at a fraction of the cost imposed by our modern health care system. Medicine has been digitized, now it will be democratized. Computers will replace physicians, citizen science will give rise to citizen medicine, and enormous data sets will give us new means to attack conditions that have long been considered incurable. Provocative and engrossing, The Patient Will See You Now is essential reading for anyone who thinks they deserve better health care. That is, for all of us.

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