Jay A. Pandit et al. - The annual cost of hospital care services in the US has risen to over $1 trillion despite relatively worse…
Eric TopolFebruary 27, 2024
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Sun-In Lee & Eric J Topol - Clinicians frequently use conditional reasoning for treatment decisions by envisioning potential outcomes for patients. This is counterfactual thinking,…
Eric TopolFebruary 24, 2024
More than 4 years into the global COVID-19 pandemic, widespread infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2) has left millions of people around…
Eric TopolFebruary 22, 2024
The medical community does not broadcast the problem, but there are many studies that have reinforced a serious issue with diagnostic errors. A recent study concluded: “We…
Eric TopolJanuary 25, 2024
The pandemic is far from over, as evidenced by the rapid rise to global dominance of the JN.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2. This variant is a derivative…
Eric TopolJanuary 4, 2024
Brady Page & Eric J Topol - A long-envisaged goal of outbreak response is a system that capitalises on the availability of massive amounts of…
Eric TopolDecember 9, 2023
Eric J Topol - The human bond between patient and clinician is fundamental. But the patient–doctor relationship is affected by the limited time allotted for…
Eric TopolOctober 21, 2023
Machines don’t have eyes, but you wouldn’t know that if you followed the progression of deep learning models for accurate interpretation of medical images, such as…
Eric TopolSeptember 20, 2023
Scott J Adams & Eric J Topol - Cancer screening typically relies on a reductionist, all-comer population approach, with screening eligibility based predominantly on age.…
Eric TopolAugust 5, 2023