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The essential guide to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our health 

“Dr. Topol’s vision is compelling, combining an empowering view of technology with the recognition that medicine requires something more.’”―Wall Street Journal 

A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery: you make an appointment months in advance, wait for several hours when you arrive, talk to a doctor for fifteen minutes, then wait longer for lab tests, the results of which you’ll likely never see unless they indicate more invasive tests are needed, most of which will probably prove unnecessary―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. Medicine is in what Topol calls its "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. 

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. 

Dr. Eric Topol is the executive vice president and a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research, the largest nonprofit biomedical institute in the United States. He is also founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute and a practicing cardiologist. He is one of the top ten most cited researchers in medicine, known for his groundbreaking studies on AI in medicine, genomics, and digitized clinical trials. He was named to the Time 100 Health list of the most influential people in health in 2024. Dr. Topol writes the Substack newsletter Ground Truths and is the author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine, Deep Medicine, and Super Agers.