Eric Topol on Medscape

• Wisdom From a Scottish GP: The Lost Art of Convalescence   The final Medicine and the Machine podcast guest, physician and author Gavin Francis, shares his approach to keeping his occupation rewarding and satisfying.
  Medscape, November 28, 2023
• His Rare Disease's Cure Was Sitting on the Pharmacy Shelf   He's alive thanks to a repurposed drug. Now his dream is to find cures for millions of people from among drugs we already have.
  Medscape, October 31, 2023
• Physicians: Shape Your AI Future or Someone Else Will   Dr Eric Topol discusses the present and future of AI in medicine with historian and futurist Dr Adam Rodman.
  Medscape, October 02, 2023
• Left-Digit Bias and Other Random Acts of Medicine   A new book reveals how chance can change the course of a person's health, life, and death.
  Medscape, September 07, 2023
• How the Modern ICU Was Galvanized By a Polio Epidemic   The medical and dental students who kept polio patients alive by hand-ventilating them around the clock are among the cast of characters in this incredible story.
  Medscape, August 15, 2023
• Bob Wachter's Viral Tweet and Thoughts on AI in Medicine   The gig was up, but when he finally got COVID, it was pretty far down on his ER problem list.
  Medscape, July 25, 2023
• AI Comes to Medicine: This Time, It's Serious   Information pollution is just the beginning. We're in for an uncomfortable ride.
  Medscape, June 27, 2023
• Tragedy, Hope, and a Medical Mystery: 'The Covenant of Water'   Dr Eric Topol and Dr Robert Harrington interview Dr Abraham Verghese about his fiction writing methods and Oprah's enthusiasm for his latest novel.
  Medscape, June 07, 2023
• There's No Place Like Home for Hospital Care   Dr Helen Ouyang on why she writes so much about the hospital-at-home movement: It's the future, one way or another.
  Medscape, May 01, 2023
• Rogue Faculty and Academic Freedom in the Age of Misinformation   Should our nation's academic institutions rein in faculty who amplify conspiracy theories and spread potentially harmful falsehoods?
  Medscape, March 15, 2023
• How AI and Chatbots Can Make Us Healers Again   ChatGPT and large language models offer physicians the chance to do what they went to medical school for: connect with patients and help them regain their health.
  Medscape, February 21, 2023
• White House COVID Chief on Why Paxlovid Is Underused   Giving Paxlovid to an older adult with COVID is a clinical no-brainer. So why is there so much Paxlovid prescribing phobia?
  Medscape, January 31, 2023
• The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable   Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese chat with the UK's professor Hannah Fry about taking risks and asking the right questions.
  Medscape, January 18, 2023
• To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air   Two-way masking is pretty effective, but it's not sustainable. Environmental engineer and viral transmission expert Dr Linsey Marr reveals how we can fight COVID by tackling our contaminated air.
  Medscape, December 22, 2022
• The New Obesity Breakthrough Drugs I'm not using the term breakthrough lightly.
  Medscape, December 14, 2022
• How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials   Dr Trish Greenhalgh explains how we miss the boat when we discount real-world evidence in favor of randomized trial evidence.
  Medscape, November 23, 2022
• The Body of Evidence for Paxlovid Therapy Dr Eric Topol says that regarding Paxlovid in COVID patients aged 60+, the evidence is compelling; we should be thinking about reasons to use it, not reasons to avoid it.
  Medscape, November 14, 2022
• Paxlovid and Long COVID A new VA study adds a third way of reducing Long COVID, no less important complications across multiple organ systems, and improved survival and avoidance of hospitalizations. It is the first such report.
  Medscape, November 08, 2022
• Should People Be More Worried About Long COVID?   Eric Topol, MD, discusses how people should be thinking about long COVID when they consider their COVID risk.
  Medscape, October 20, 2022
• How We Create--Then Blame--A Viral Underclass   Stephen Thrasher discusses his new book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide.
  Medscape, October 13, 2022