Eric Topol on Why Doctors Need to Organize
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Eric Topol is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. He is editor-in-chief of Medscape and theheart.org. He has published three bestseller books on the future of medicine. The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2010), The Patient Will See You Now (2015), and Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (2019). He was also commissioned by the UK 2018\\u20132019 to lead planning for the National Health Service's future workforce, integrating genomics, digital medicine, and artificial intelligence. In 2016, Topol was awarded a US$207 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a significant part of the Precision Medicine Initiative (All of Us Research Program), a one million American prospective research program. This is in addition to his role as principal investigator for a US$35 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to promote innovation in medicine and the education and career training of future medical researchers.
\\nLyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:
\\nDOCTORS UNITE
\\nWe need the doctors to lead the fight
\\nWe need the doctors to combine their might
\\nWe need the doctors to lead every campaign
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\\nWe need the doctors to take this on
\\nWe need the doctors to be strong
\\nWe need the doctors to stand up in our name
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\\nObesity is killing people
\\nIt's an epidemic
\\nHeart disease is deadly
\\nAnd it's become endemic
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\\nWho can end the nightmare
\\nWhat can stop the pain?
\\nDieticians? Or marketing campaigns?
\\nNo, the remedy is Universal
\\nDoctors unite
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\\nDoctors are stressed to breaking
\\nBy unnecessary work
\\nTied down to their keyboards
\\nThey are data entry clerks
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\\nWho can end the nightmare?
\\nWhat can stop the pain?
\\nMedical Administrators, this is their terrain
\\nNo, the remedy is Universal
\\nDoctors unite
\\n
\\nWe need the doctors to lead the fight
\\nWe need the doctors to combine their might
\\nWe need the doctors to lead every campaign
\\n
\\nWe need the doctors to take this on
\\nWe need the doctors to be strong
\\nWe need the doctors to stand up in our name
\\n
\\nThere are so many issues
\\nSo many fights
\\nFrom inequality to poverty
\\nDon't mention gun rights
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\\nBut if one million doctors
\\nWere together in one lane
\\nImagine their power
\\nHow much they could change
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\\nOpioids are overused
\\nA crisis now exists
\\nDoctors serve as drug dispensers
\\nFor big pharma lobbyists
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\\nWho can end the nightmare?
\\nWhat can stop the pain?
\\nPossibly new legislation? Or something in that vein?
\\nNo, the remedy is Universal
\\nDoctors unite
\\n
\\nWe need the doctors to lead the fight
\\nWe need the doctors to combine their might
\\nWe need the doctors to lead every campaign
\\n
\\nWe need the doctors to take this on
\\nWe need the doctors to be strong
\\nWe need the doctors to stand up in our name
\\n
\\nWe need the doctors to unite
\\nWe need the doctors to aim a strike
\\nWe need the doctors to get us out of this
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\\nThe remedy is Universal
\\nDoctors unite