
The Creative Destruction of Medicine
How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
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Narrated by:
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Dick Hill
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By:
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Eric Topol
Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy, with carefully controlled double-blind trials, hundreds of patients, and clear indicators of success. Well, Eric Topol isn't most doctors, and he suggests you entertain the notion of a third kind of medicine, one that will make the evidence-based state-of-the-art stuff look scarcely better than an alchemist trying to animate a homunculus in a jar.
It turns out that plenty of new medicines - although tested with what seem like large trials - actually end up revealing most of their problems only once they get out in the real world, with millions of people with all kinds of conditions mixing them with everything in the pharmacopeia. The unexpected interactions of drugs, patients, and diseases can be devastating. And the clear indicators of success often turn out to be minimal, often as small as one fewer person dying out of a hundred (or even a thousand), and often at exorbitant cost.
How can we avoid these dangerous interactions and side-effects? How can we predict which person out of a hundred will be helped by a new drug, and which fatally harmed? And how can we avoid having to need costly drugs in the first place? It sure isn't by doing another 400-person trial.
As Topol argues in The Creative Destruction of Medicine, it's by bringing the era of big data to the clinic, laboratory, and hospital, with wearable sensors, smartphone apps, and whole-genome scans providing the raw materials for a revolution. Combining all the data those tools can provide will give us a complete and continuously updated picture of every patient, changing everything from the treatment of disease, to the prolonging of health, to the development of new treatments. As revolutionary as the past 20 years in personal technology and medicine have been - remember phones the sizes of bricks that only made calls, or when the most advanced "genotyping" we could do involved discerning blood types and Rh-factors? - Topol makes it clear that we haven't seen a thing yet. With an optimism matched only by a realism gained through 25 years in a tough job, Topol proves the ideal guide to the medicine of the future - medicine he himself is deeply involved in creating.
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Where does The Creative Destruction of Medicine rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Dr. Topol presents a very lively, and optimistic view of medicine and patterns that may advance it in the near future. The optimism espoused is very heavily dependent on technological advances (which is in many ways understandable), but the author doesn't address how to rid ourselves of our terrible health care delivery system. The role of non-scientists and non-clinical care givers in our current system.What was one of the most memorable moments of The Creative Destruction of Medicine?
The ridiculous amount of bureaucracy organizations like the FDA represent, and still how many times corners get cut on the road to approval when the applicant has the money to pay.The ridiculous concept of surrogate endpoints, and misleading statistics.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, I went a referred to some sources that Dr. Topol mentioned and I took a circuitous path.Any additional comments?
Interesting points throughout the book, but also very disturbing that the health care industry has little resemblance to evidence based medicine.Very interesting, but in someways very naive.
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Fantastic read for everyone in healthcare
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He argues against population based medicine assuming that large clinical trials do not target the correct patients, and genetics could facilitate that target. One would have to accept that the more we know about our genetic background, population medicine is NOT just intervention. We’re it not for our large investigative population based epidemiological studies many of our diseases would have taken years longer to assess causal associations. That said, treating whole populations for the protection of the few does not make sense and genotyping, as he proposes, is a very appropriate way to target intervention and perhaps drug development.
As a large proponent of big data, I would suggest Dr Topol is also advocating for large population based studies to sort through multi factorial health issues to look at best ways to ameliorate global health.
The book is very worthwhile reading/listening to and his insight from a decade before is prescient.
Eric Topols insight into medicines future
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informative, but dry
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Understanding healthcare causes is complicated
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glimpse into a better future...maybe
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Would you try another book from Eric Topol and/or Dick Hill?
noWhat was most disappointing about Eric Topol’s story?
It was a long list of new things in medicine poorly organized into a bookHow could the performance have been better?
He could have read the book at a normal pace instead of the slowest reading ever in a poor attempt to make the book seem longerPoor plot orginization
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I wanted a book that goes in depth on how the digital revolution is making health care better.
A very negative book too, just keeps on complaining over and over.
Not at all about The Digital Revolution
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Narrator kills it
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