Eric Topol

“The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.”

“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.”

“Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.”

“The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.”

“The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.”

“I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.”

“Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.”

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