The creative destruction of medicine : how the digital revolution will create better health care / Eric Topol.

Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy, with carefully controlled double-blind trials, hu...

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Main Author: Topol, Eric J., 1954- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2012.
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Summary:Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy, with carefully controlled double-blind trials, hundreds of patients, and clear indicators of success. Well, Eric Topol isn't most doctors, and he suggests you entertain the notion of a third kind of medicine, one that will make the evidence-based state-of-the-art stuff look scarcely better than an alchemist trying to animate a homunculus in a jar.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780465029341
0465029345
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.