Eric Topol on the Power of Patients in a Digital World

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🗓️ 11 May 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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We're in the middle of a healthcare revolution but it's about more than marvelous life-saving and life-enhancing apps on our smartphone. Eric Topol of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and author of The Patient Will See You Now argues that the digital revolution will give us more control of our health information and data. More powerful patients will transform the doctor-patient interaction. Topol talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book giving us a glimpse of the changes coming to medicine from the digital revolution.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:11.0	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find links
0:16.3	and other information related to today's conversation.
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0:23.2	back to 2006.
0:25.4	For email address ismailodycontalk.org.
0:27.4	We'd love to hear from you.
0:34.4	Today is May 1, 2015, and my guest is Eric Topel.
0:39.0	He is the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and Professor of Genomics
0:43.2	at the Scripps Research Institute.
0:45.6	And a lot more, he seems to be a very busy man, yet he has somehow found time for his
0:49.8	latest book.
0:51.1	The patient will see you now.
0:53.1	The future of medicine is in your hands.
0:55.7	Eric, welcome back to econtalk.
0:57.7	Russ, great to be with you again.
1:00.1	Thanks.
1:01.1	Now your book is about the potential democratization of medicine, as you call it.
1:06.0	What do you mean by the democratization of medicine?
1:08.9	What might be changing in the doctor-patient relationship?
1:15.1	It's a flip.
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