“When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.” — Eric Topol

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.

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 digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.