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    About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.

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    A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

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    Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

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    For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

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    For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

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    For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.

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    I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.

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    I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

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    I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

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    It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

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    Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

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    Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

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    The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

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    The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

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    The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.

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    The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

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    There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.

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    The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

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    Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

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    Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.