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loafingcactus
Oct 25, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: read-2012, med-lite
The book gives you all the pieces that will lead to a medical revolution. The revolution won't occur in hospitals or in legacy research tracks. You don't reposition yourself into a revolution. It also describes some aspects of how traditional medicine will be shifted in parallel with the revolution and what you can do to avoid being harmed by traditional medicine as it currently exists.

For avoiding harm, I would suggest The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System for mo
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CatReader
Sep 20, 2020 rated it really liked it
For a book written in 2012, this is an insightful look at how medicine is currently being practiced in 2020. Specifically, the sections about genome sequencing and other genetic testing (pharmacogenetics, etc.) that must have seemed fantastical and way out-of-reach to the average consumer in 2012 are now becoming increasingly ubiquitous and affordable in 2020. Telemedicine is picking up more and more marketshare, though a global pandemic that Dr. Topol couldn't have foreseen has been a huge driv ...more
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