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Empowered Medicine

Author : Trip Goolsby MD
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504385373
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Empowered Medicine written by Trip Goolsby MD and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowered Medicine is medical motivational mindfulness. This book is written as a guideline to transformation for all those who may (or may not) recognize the role they can have in creating the health they truly desire, regardless of the health that they currently have. Reading and using the exercises provided in this book will usher in enhanced abilities to focus on desired outcomes and the means to attain them. It will be a means by which we may all be empowered to not only achieve the health we desire but to activate our imaginations and beliefs to manifest the environment and trappings of that successful health image. It is an important affirmative, mindful, complementary step in the direction of self-realized health, healing, and well-being, harnessing empowered awareness to acquire the long-lasting quality of life and the healing of illness we all deserve. Empowered Medicine is for those who are sick of being sick, who are ready to take their healthcare and their personal power back and to a level not previously perceived or experienced in the current mass production reactive medical model. Using a highly successful platform, Empowered Medicine provides the transformational mindfulness that it takes to push past previously held limiting perceptions of health and fitness in order to truly step into optimized health and longevity.

Personalized Medicine

Author : Barbara Prainsack
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479856908
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Personalized Medicine written by Barbara Prainsack and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a reality Medicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual characteristics of their patients when diagnosing, and treating them. Patients have cared for themselves and for each other, contributed to medical research, and advocated for new treatments. Given this history, why has the notion of personalized medicine gained so much traction at the beginning of the new millennium? Personalized Medicine investigates the recent movement for patients’ involvement in how they are treated, diagnosed, and medicated; a movement that accompanies the increasingly popular idea that people should be proactive, well-informed participants in their own healthcare. While it is often the case that participatory practices in medicine are celebrated as instances of patient empowerment or, alternatively, are dismissed as cases of patient exploitation, Barbara Prainsack challenges these views to illustrate how personalized medicine can give rise to a technology-focused individualism, yet also present new opportunities to strengthen solidarity. Facing the future, this book reveals how medicine informed by digital, quantified, and computable information is already changing the personalization movement, providing a contemporary twist on how medical symptoms or ailments are shared and discussed in society. Bringing together empirical work and critical scholarship from medicine, public health, data governance, bioethics, and digital sociology, Personalized Medicine analyzes the challenges of personalization driven by patient work and data. This compelling volume proposes an understanding that uses novel technological practices to foreground the needs and interests of patients, instead of being ruled by them.

The Empowered Patient

Author : Elizabeth S. Cohen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345523113
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Empowered Patient written by Elizabeth S. Cohen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The facts are alarming: Medical errors kill more people each year than AIDS, breast cancer, or car accidents. A doctor’s relationship with pharmaceutical companies may influence his choice of drugs for you. The wrong key word on an insurance claim can deny you coverage. Through real life stories, including her own, and shrewd advice, CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen shows you how to become your own advocate and navigate the minefield of today’s health-care system. But there’s good news. Discover how to • find a doctor who “gets” you and listens to you • ask the right questions for the best treatment • make the most out of a short office visit • cut out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs • harness the power of the Internet for medical issues • fight back when claims are denied Combining the personal stories of patients across America with crucial advice on receiving the best possible health care, this guide will enable you to confront an often confusing and perilous system—and come out ahead.

The Vulnerable Empowered Woman

Author : Tasha N. Dubriwny
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813554020
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Vulnerable Empowered Woman written by Tasha N. Dubriwny and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The feminist women’s health movement of the 1960s and 1970s is credited with creating significant changes in the healthcare industry and bringing women’s health issues to public attention. Decades later, women’s health issues are more visible than ever before, but that visibility is made possible by a process of depoliticization The Vulnerable Empowered Woman assesses the state of women’s healthcare today by analyzing popular media representations—television, print newspapers, websites, advertisements, blogs, and memoirs—in order to understand the ways in which breast cancer, postpartum depression, and cervical cancer are discussed in American public life. From narratives about prophylactic mastectomies to young girls receiving a vaccine for sexually transmitted disease, the representations of women’s health today form a single restrictive identity: the vulnerable empowered woman. This identity defuses feminist notions of collective empowerment and social change by drawing from both postfeminist and neoliberal ideologies. The woman is vulnerable because of her very femininity and is empowered not to change the world, but to choose from among a limited set of medical treatments. The media’s depiction of the vulnerable empowered woman’s relationship with biomedicine promotes traditional gender roles and affirms women’s unquestioning reliance on medical science for empowerment. The book concludes with a call to repoliticize women’s health through narratives that can help us imagine women—and their relationship to medicine—differently.

Empowered Medicine

Author : Christi Larson Pharmd
Publisher : Smart Leaf Press
ISBN 13 : 9781733013000
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Empowered Medicine written by Christi Larson Pharmd and published by Smart Leaf Press. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm pharmacist Christi Larson, Pharm. D. and I'm happy to bring you the book Empowered Medicine: A Guide for Consumers. Empowered Medicine is the ONLY book that takes the official medical guidelines for health conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes and atrial fibrillation and explains them in layman's terms so you can learn which drugs may actually work better for you and have less side effects. You will also find out which drugs might help you live longer (based on data from scientific studies on mortality) and save money. The book Empowered Medicine is designed to be easy to navigate because each chapter outlines a new health condition where critical information about the condition is covered. The book allows you to plug in your own numbers so you can find out specifically which medication may be right for you based on recommendations from official guidelines and scientific data. The worksheets in the back allow for easy documentation of your own health information and numbers such as blood pressures and lab values. This allows for easy calculations and sharing with your doctor. There is also a summary of each condition at the end of each chapter which serves as a great review. This is the family health reference that no home library should be without.

Personalized Medicine

Author : Barbara Prainsack
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147981458X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Personalized Medicine written by Barbara Prainsack and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Personalized Medicine investigates the recent movement for patients' involvement in how they are treated, diagnosed, and medicated; a movement that accompanies the increasingly popular idea that people should be proactive, well-informed participants in their own healthcare. While it is often the case that participatory practices in medicine are celebrated as instances of patient empowerment or, alternatively, are dismissed as cases of patient exploitation, Barbara Prainsack challenges these views to illustrate how personalized medicine can give rise to a technology-focused individualism, yet also present new opportunities to strengthen solidarity. Facing the future, this book reveals how medicine informed by digital, quantified, and computable information is already changing the personalization movement, providing a contemporary twist on how medical symptoms or ailments are shared and discussed in society"--Provided by publisher.

Deep Medicine

Author : Eric Topol
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541644646
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Deep Medicine written by Eric Topol and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Science Friday pick for book of the year, 2019 One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and medical errors and misdiagnoses abound. In Deep Medicine, leading physician Eric Topol reveals how artificial intelligence can help. AI has the potential to transform everything doctors do, from notetaking and medical scans to diagnosis and treatment, greatly cutting down the cost of medicine and reducing human mortality. By freeing physicians from the tasks that interfere with human connection, AI will create space for the real healing that takes place between a doctor who can listen and a patient who needs to be heard. Innovative, provocative, and hopeful, Deep Medicine shows us how the awesome power of AI can make medicine better, for all the humans involved.

Digital Health and Patient Data

Author : Disa Lee Choun
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000620719
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Digital Health and Patient Data written by Disa Lee Choun and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-08-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patients with unmet needs will continue to increase as no viable nor adequate treatment exists. Meanwhile, healthcare systems are struggling to cope with the rise of patients with chronic diseases, the ageing population and the increasing cost of drugs. What if there is a faster and less expensive way to provide better care for patients using the right digital solutions and transforming the growing volumes of health data into insights? The increase of digital health has grown exponentially in the last few years. Why is there a slow uptake of these new digital solutions in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries? One of the key reasons is that patients are often left out of the innovation process. Their data are used without their knowledge, solutions designed for them are developed without their input and healthcare professionals refuse their expertise. This book explores what it means to empower patients in a digital world and how this empowerment will bridge the gap between science, technology and patients. All these components need to co-exist to bring value not only to the patients themselves but to improve the healthcare ecosystem. Patients have taken matters into their own hands. Some are equipped with the latest wearables and applications, engaged in improving their health using data, empowered to make informed decisions and ultimately are experts in their disease(s). They are the e-patients. The other side of the spectrum are patients with minimal digital literacy but equally willing to donate their data for the purpose of research. Finding the right balance when using digital health solutions becomes as critical as the need to develop a disease-specific solution. For the first time, the authors look at healthcare and technologies through the lens of patients and physicians via surveys and interviews in order to understand their perspective on digital health, analyse the benefits for them, explore how they can actively engage in the innovation process, and identify the threats and opportunities the large volumes of data create by digitizing healthcare. Are patients truly ready to know everything about their health? What is the value of their data? How can other stakeholders join the patient empowerment movement? This unique perspective will help us re-design the future of healthcare - an industry in desperate need for a change.

Empowered Medicine

Author : MD Trip Goolsby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781504385367
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Empowered Medicine written by MD Trip Goolsby and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowered Medicine is medical motivational mindfulness. This book is written as a guideline to transformation for all those who may (or may not) recognize the role they can have in creating the health they truly desire, regardless of the health that they currently have. Reading and using the exercises provided in this book will usher in enhanced abilities to focus on desired outcomes and the means to attain them. It will be a means by which we may all be empowered to not only achieve the health we desire but to activate our imaginations and beliefs to manifest the environment and trappings of that successful health image. It is an important affirmative, mindful, complementary step in the direction of self-realized health, healing, and well-being, harnessing empowered awareness to acquire the long-lasting quality of life and the healing of illness we all deserve. Empowered Medicine is for those who are sick of being sick, who are ready to take their healthcare and their personal power back and to a level not previously perceived or experienced in the current mass production reactive medical model. Using a highly successful platform, Empowered Medicine provides the transformational mindfulness that it takes to push past previously held limiting perceptions of health and fitness in order to truly step into optimized health and longevity.

The Creative Destruction of Medicine

Author : Eric Topol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465025501
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Creative Destruction of Medicine written by Eric Topol and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of medicine reveals how technology like wireless internet, individual data, and personal genomics can be used to save lives.

The Laws of Medicine

Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147678485X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Laws of Medicine written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all. Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a “science”? Sciences must have laws—statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences? Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this question—a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his discipline—culminating in The Laws of Medicine. In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee’s signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future.

Information Technology for Patient Empowerment in Healthcare

Author : Maria Adela Grando
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614514348
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Information Technology for Patient Empowerment in Healthcare written by Maria Adela Grando and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims and Scope Patients are more empowered to shape their own health care today than ever before. Health information technologies are creating new opportunities for patients and families to participate actively in their care, manage their medical problems and improve communication with their healthcare providers. Moreover, health information technologies are enabling healthcare providers to partner with their patients in a bold effort to optimize quality of care, improve health outcomes and transform the healthcare system on the macro-level. In this book, leading figures discuss the existing needs, challenges and opportunities for improving patient engagement and empowerment through health information technology, mapping out what has been accomplished and what work remains to truly transform the care we deliver and engage patients in their care. Policymakers, healthcare providers and administrators, consultants and industry managers, researchers and students and, not least, patients and their family members should all find value in this book. "In the exciting period that lies just ahead, more will be needed than simply connecting patients to clinicians, and clinicians to each other. The health care systems that will be most effective in meeting patients' needs will be those that can actually design their 'human wares' around that purpose. This book provides deep insight into how information technology can and will support that redesign." Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc, Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey Associates; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health The Editors: Drs. Maria Adela Grando, Ronen Rozenblum and David W. Bates are widely recognized professors, researchers and experts in the domain of health information technology, patient engagement and empowerment. Their research, lectures and contributions in these domains have been recognized nationally and internationally. Dr. Grando is affiliated with Arizona State University and the Mayo Clinic, and Drs. Rozenblum and Bates are affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University.

Qigong Empowerment

Author : Shou-Yu Liang
Publisher : Way of the Dragon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781889659022
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Qigong Empowerment written by Shou-Yu Liang and published by Way of the Dragon Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qigong Empowerment is the most unique and complete volume ever written in the English language on qigong (Chi Kung). This volume can be used for attaining better health, for healing, for gaining extraordinary power, and for spiritual development. This volume consists of five books which covers: - Traditional Chinese Medical theories and qi cultivation methods. - Taoist methods to foster Essence, Qi, and Spirit. - Buddhist Esoteric Abilities of the Body, Speech, and Mind. - Emitting, Absorbing, and Healing Qigong. - Wushu (martial arts) Iron Shirt training. Qigong (Chi Kung) has been an integral part of Chinese culture since ancient China. High level qigong masters have always been respected and held in high esteem in Chinese society. Qi is a Chinese term used to refer to all types of energy. It is the intrinsic substance or the vital force behind all things in the universe. It is the medium between and within all material substances. We are all immersed in it. The term gong refers to the power to produce an effect, an attainment of, or an accomplishment that is achieved with steady practice. Loosely, qigong can be translated as the attainment of qi. Healers and the medical society use qigong for healing and preventing illness. Martial artists use qigong for developing incredible strength and abilities. Others use qigong to attain a greater consciousness.

Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child

Author : Janet Zand
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781583331392
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child written by Janet Zand and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-01-06 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised, updated, and expanded to reflect the latest thinking and information on children's health issues, Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child enables parents to combine the best of conventional and alternative approaches. Part One explains the full spectrum of techniques that can be employed to effectively treat childhood health problems, providing an overview of the history, fundamentals, and uses of conventional medicine, herbal medicine, homeopathy, acupressure, diet, and nutritional supplementation. Part Two contains a comprehensive A-to-Z guide to the various health problems of childhood, from acne to chickenpox to thumb-sucking. Finally, Part Three offers guidance on using the therapies and procedures suggested in Part Two, from locating acupressure points to preparing herbal remedies. Written by a naturopathic physician, a medical doctor, and a pediatric nurse, this unique book gives parents easy access to current information and advice regarding their children's health and acts as a bridge between time-honored healing systems and mainstream medicine. Illustrated with line art.

Empowered Healer

Author : Susan Allison Ph.D.
Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 1452537933
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Empowered Healer written by Susan Allison Ph.D. and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of not paying attention to the honest voices inside you, you may not remember how to listen to your intuition. This disconnection may have caused you to feel worn down or depressed, weakened, and powerless, and left your immune systems vulnerable and open to illness. In Empowered Healer, author Dr. Susan Allison helps you relearn how to access and listen to your inner guidance and become empowered to take action to heal yourself completelyboth physically and emotionally. Allison has spent more than twenty years developing a formula to help you: Believe in yourself and stop blocking your healing Fill with power and create a team to support you Tune into and listen to your physical symptoms Find the emotional causes of your distress Release physical and emotional pain Create and live the life of your dreams Using anecdotes and examples from her personal experiences as a healer, Allison communicates the keys to believing in your own power to restore yourself to wholeness. A powerhouse of wisdom, Empowered Healer helps you heal from the inside out to create greater happiness in every area of your life.

Empowered Health and Wellness

Author : Katelyn Mariah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615664569
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Empowered Health and Wellness written by Katelyn Mariah and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU ARE READY TO BE WELL ON ALL LEVELS! Through compelling personal stories, education on alternative therapies and tips on how to use them, Katelyn introduces you to the Inner Physician, that part of each of us that knows exactly what our body needs to come back into balance and stay healthy. CONNECT WITH YOUR INNER ALLY! The key to discovering this Inner Physician is two fold. First we must understand that miracles happen all of the time and second we must learn to trust ourselves and the ability of our body to return to homeostasis so we can tap into that inner power and become partners with our health. This book is for everyone, whether you are currently dealing with illness and want to get healthy or if you are healthy and want ways to maintain it. THIS IS FOR YOU!

The Patient Will See You Now

Author : Eric Topol
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465094473
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Patient Will See You Now written by Eric Topol and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide by one of America's leading doctors to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our health A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the doctor will see you now"-but only for fifteen minutes! Then you'll wait even longer for lab tests, the results of which you'll likely never see, unless they indicate further (and more invasive) tests, most of which will probably prove unnecessary (much like physicals themselves). And your bill will be astronomical. In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, shows why medicine does not have to be that way. Instead, you could use your smartphone to get rapid test results from one drop of blood, monitor your vital signs both day and night, and use an artificially intelligent algorithm to receive a diagnosis without having to see a doctor, all at a small fraction of the cost imposed by our modern healthcare system. The change is powered by what Topol calls medicine's "Gutenberg moment." Much as the printing press took learning out of the hands of a priestly class, the mobile internet is doing the same for medicine, giving us unprecedented control over our healthcare. With smartphones in hand, we are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic system in which "doctor knows best." Medicine has been digitized, Topol argues; now it will be democratized. Computers will replace physicians for many diagnostic tasks, citizen science will give rise to citizen medicine, and enormous data sets will give us new means to attack conditions that have long been incurable. Massive, open, online medicine, where diagnostics are done by Facebook-like comparisons of medical profiles, will enable real-time, real-world research on massive populations. There's no doubt the path forward will be complicated: the medical establishment will resist these changes, and digitized medicine inevitably raises serious issues surrounding privacy. Nevertheless, the result-better, cheaper, and more human health care-will be worth it. Provocative and engrossing, The Patient Will See You Now is essential reading for anyone who thinks they deserve better health care. That is, for all of us.