Topol on The Creative Destruction of Medicine

On the heels of the popular book The Creative Destruction of Medicine by Eric J. Topol, MD, Medscape and Dr. Topol have teamed up to expand on the latest innovations currently influencing the practice of medicine and promising to affect its future. These monthly commentaries provide an overview of the advancements radically changing the physician-patient relationship and serve as a spark for ongoing conversation among clinicians on the reboot of medicine.

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Topol on Replacing Clinicians With Algorithms Is the nation on the verge of a healthcare provider shortage, or are clinicians being phased out by algorithms?
Medscape, July 1, 2013
Topol on Using Smartphones for Complex Diagnostic Challenges Eric J. Topol, MD, describes how smartphones and supercomputers will partner to help clinicians with challenging medical diagnoses and treatments.
Medscape, May 15, 2013
Topol on the Cancer Clinic of the Future Dr. Eric Topol explains how the cancer clinic of the future will look.
Medscape, April 17, 2013
Topol on Why Medical Gutenberg Is Important for Clinicians No longer are medical data available only to clinician providers. Why is this important? Dr. Eric Topol explains.
Medscape, February 15, 2013
Topol: Hospitals, Office Visits of Little Use in the Future Dr. Eric Topol wonders why anyone would want to visit a hospital or waste time at a physician office visit in the future and offers ways to improve on these models of patient care.
Medscape, January 14, 2013
Topol: Runaway Use of Radiation Harming Patients Dr. Eric Topol questions the role of physicians in explaining to patients the risks associated with medical scans and encourages medical professionals to put the use of lower-radiation scans into practice.
Medscape, December 17, 2012
Topol on Why Hospitals Are Still the Antechamber to the Tomb Dr. Eric Topol talks about how electronic data can be used to improve patient care in hospitals.
Medscape, October 17, 2012
Topol: Consumer-Driven Healthcare Is an Uncomfortable Concept Dr. Eric Topol is back with a topic that makes a lot of physicians very uncomfortable.
Medscape, September 17, 2012
Topol: Get Rid of the Randomized Trial; Here's a Better Way Dr. Eric Topol wants to throw out the 'contrived' randomized, placebo-controlled trial and launch the clinical trial of the future. Here's how he'd do it.
Medscape, August 20, 2012
Topol on Social Networking's 'Big Impact' on Medicine Social networking is changing the practice of medicine and the way patients interact with one another.
Medscape, July 16, 2012
Topol on 5 Devices Physicians Need to Know About In this new series from Medscape, Dr. Eric Topol, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine, will discuss how technology is changing medicine and demonstrate the most revolutionary new devices.
Medscape, June 5, 2012

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Eric J. Topol, MD
Director
Scripps Translational Science Institute
La Jolla, California
Eric J. Topol, MD, is Director of Scripps Translational Science Institute and host of the Medscape series Topol on The Creative Destruction of Medicine. He is also Chief Academic Officer at Scripps Health; Professor of Translational Genomics at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; and Editor-in-Chief of theheart.org and Medscape Genomic Medicine.

The Creative Destruction of Medicine is published by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group.