This Doctor Will Save You Money

摘要

I visited cardiologist Eric Topol at the Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, California, one day this summer. He'd had a busy morning seeing patients, and by about noon he was claiming that he'd already saved the medical system thousands of dollars using his iPhone and a pocket-size ultrasound machine. Then he pointed to the stethoscope in his pocket and said he hadn't used it in three years. "I should just throw it out," he said. "This is basically a worthless icon of medicine."