“We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still i…” — 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.

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.

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.