The creative destruction of medicine : how the digital revolution will create better health care /
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, hu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780465029341 (electronic) 0465029345 (electronic) |