Eric Topol People Quotations

For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.

Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

When you're asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that involves? How many of those sorts of scans have you already had? Is it necessary? Is there an alternative? I don't think many people know about that.

Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.