Advance uncorrected proof. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Medicine turned upside down -- Eminence-based medicine -- A precedent for momentous change -- Angelina Jolie : my choice -- My GIS -- My lab tests and scans -- My costs -- My (smartphone) doctor -- The edifice complex -- Open sesame -- Secure vs. cure -- Predicting and preempting disease -- Flattening the earth -- The emancipated consumer.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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