The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands

Author: Eric Topol Brand: Basic Books AZ Edition: Reprint Features: Basic Books AZ ISBN: 0465040020 Number Of Pages: 384 Publisher: Basic Books Release Date: 2016-10-25 Details: "[Topol is] one of medicine's most innovative thinkers about the digital future.... [A] valuable contribution to a fascinating subject."--New York Times Book ReviewA trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the doctor will see you now"-but only for fifteen minutes! Then you'll wait even longer for lab tests, the results of which you'll likely never see, unless they indicate further (and more invasive) tests, most of which will probably prove unnecessary (much like physicals themselves). And your bill will be astronomical.In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, shows why medicine does not have to be that way. Instead, you could use your smartphone to get rapid