Media to Consider - 4/19/19

Books and Articles worth a Review…

Eric Topol’s new book, Deep Medicine, is an absolute MUST READ for anyone in the health care world.  It will take you on a whirlwind tour of the technology forces which are being unleashed across all of society which will profoundly alter our notion of medicine and health care in the future.  We are the cusp of a major shift in capability that will make the discovery of antibiotics pale in comparison.  In particular, I believe his last chapter is the most profound.  He notes that we have historically recruited into medicine and the helping professions people who were brainy folks and who had the ability to store large quantities of data in their brains.  With the advent of clinically augmented intelligence where the computer becomes part of our armamentarium, he argues that we will need clinicians with must stronger skills in emotional intelligence.  I think he’s right.  Let’s start the debate now.  I hope there are some Deans reading this blog…