In The Patient WILL TRULY SEE YOU Now, Eric Topol, among the nation’s top physicians, examines what he calls medicine’s ‘Gutenberg moment.’ Much as the printing press liberated knowledge from your control of at the very top class, new technology is certainly poised to democratize medicine. In this new era, individuals will control their data and become emancipated from a paternalistic medical routine in which ‘the doctor understands best.’

Mobile phones, apps, and attachments will literally put the lab as well as the ICU in our pockets. Computer systems will replace doctors for most diagnostic tasks, and tremendous data sets gives us new methods to assault conditions which have always been incurable. In spite of these benefits, the path forward will be complicated: some in the medical establishment will withstand these changes, and digitized medication will raise serious issues surrounding privacy. Nevertheless, the result-better, cheaper, and more humane healthcare for all-will become worth it.