(Lezen) [Epub] The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the
Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
By Eric J. 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, 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. It turns out plenty of new medicines-although tested with what
seem like large trials-actually end up revealing most of their problems only once they
get out in the real world, with millions of people with all kinds of conditions mixing
them with everything in the pharmacopeia. The unexpected interactions of drugs,
patients, and diseases can be devastating. And the clear indicators of success
