April 2, 2013
Topol on the Creative Destruction of Medicine
Russell Roberts
Affiliated Senior Scholar
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To speak with a scholar or learn more on this topic, visit our contact page.Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Institute and the author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Topics discussed include "evidence-based" medicine, the influence of the pharmaceutical industry, how medicine is currently conducted for the "average" patient, the potential of genomics to improve health care and the power of technology, generally, to transform medicine.
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