Mob medicine

摘要

By the end of this book, geneticist Eric Topol explain; his intent has not been to provide a "techno-tour" of how the digital revolution will change healthcare. From the title, that's what I had expected. Instead, I got an eye-opening account of why conventional medicine is doomed. According to Topol, modern medicine's focus on the population rather than the individual may be damaging our health. He describes how mass screening for breast or prostate cancer often falsely identifies people who don't have the disease, leading to unnecessary interventions and worry, and how Plavix, an anticoagulant that is the second-most prescribed drug in the world, is ineffective in 30 per cent of people and can even raise their risk of blood clots.