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Author Topol, Eric J., 1954- author

Title The patient will see you now : the future of medicine is in your hands / Eric Topol
Published New York : Basic Books, 2016
©2015

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Description 374 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents Section 1: Readiness for a revolution -- 1. Medicine turned upside down -- 2. Eminence-based medicine -- 3. A precedent for momentous change -- 4. Angelina Jolie : my choice Section 2: The New data and information -- 5. My GIS -- 6. My lab tests and scans -- 7. My records and meds -- 8. My costs -- 9. My (smartphone) doctor -- Section 3: The impact -- 10. The edifice complex -- 11. Open sesame -- 12. Secure vs. cure -- 13. Predicting and preempting disease -- 14. Flattening the earth -- 15. The emancipated consumer
Summary 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 vital signs both day and night, and use an artificially intelligent algorithm to receive a diagnosis without having to see a doctor, all at a small fraction of the cost imposed by our modern healthcare system. The change is powered by what Topol calls medicine's "Gutenberg moment." Much as the printing press took learning out of the hands of a priestly class, the mobile internet is doing the same for medicine, giving us unprecedented control over our healthcare. With smartphones in hand, we are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic system in which "doctor knows best." Medicine has been digitized, Topol argues; now it will be democratized
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Patient Participation.
Delivery of Health Care -- trends.
Physician-Patient Relations.
Social Media.
Medicine -- Data processing -- Social aspects.
Medical informatics -- Social aspects.
Medical care -- Forecasting.
Medical Informatics.
Medicine -- Data processing -- Social aspects.
Physician and patient.
LC no. 2014035830
ISBN 9780465040025