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The patient will see you now : the future of medicine is in your hands

By: Topol, Eric J, 1954-
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Basic Books, c2015.Description: 374 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780465040025Subject(s): Medicine -- Data processing -- Social aspects | Medical informatics -- Social aspects | Medical care -- Forecasting | Physician and patient | MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine | MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery | MEDICAL / Physicians | MEDICAL / Family & General PracticeDDC classification: 610.285 TO PA Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
"In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, examines what he calls medicine's Gutenberg moment--much as the printing press took learning out of the hands of a priestly class, the internet is doing the same for medicine, giving us unprecedented control over our healthcare. With smartphones in hand, we are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic medical system. Medicine has been digitized, Topol argues, now it's time for it to be democratized. Provocative and engrossing, The Patient Will See You Now is about all that lies ahead in a world of digital, democratic medicine, including fair discussion of a range of potential downsides, from privacy violations to intransigence on the part of the medical powers that be. Indeed, though many in the medical establishment will resist Topol's vision, he argues convincingly that medicine has been authoritarian for far too long, and that not changing the course of medicine will incur steep costs for us all. It's time to put the tools of medicine, and the power that goes with them, into the hands of the people"--
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai
Main Collection 		610.285 TO PA (Browse shelf) Available Mar2020 T0064103
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-350) and index.

"In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, examines what he calls medicine's Gutenberg moment--much as the printing press took learning out of the hands of a priestly class, the internet is doing the same for medicine, giving us unprecedented control over our healthcare. With smartphones in hand, we are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic medical system. Medicine has been digitized, Topol argues, now it's time for it to be democratized. Provocative and engrossing, The Patient Will See You Now is about all that lies ahead in a world of digital, democratic medicine, including fair discussion of a range of potential downsides, from privacy violations to intransigence on the part of the medical powers that be. Indeed, though many in the medical establishment will resist Topol's vision, he argues convincingly that medicine has been authoritarian for far too long, and that not changing the course of medicine will incur steep costs for us all. It's time to put the tools of medicine, and the power that goes with them, into the hands of the people"--

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