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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 2018–2019 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.
Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:
DOCTORS UNITE
We need the doctors to lead the fight
We need the doctors to combine their might
We need the doctors to lead every campaign
We need the doctors to take this on
We need the doctors to be strong
We need the doctors to stand up in our name
Obesity is killing people
It's an epidemic
Heart disease is deadly
And it's become endemic
Who can end the nightmare
What can stop the pain?
Dieticians? Or marketing campaigns?
No, the remedy is Universal
Doctors unite
Doctors are stressed to breaking
By unnecessary work
Tied down to their keyboards
They are data entry clerks
Who can end the nightmare?
What can stop the pain?
Medical Administrators, this is their terrain
No, the remedy is Universal
Doctors unite
We need the doctors to lead the fight
We need the doctors to combine their might
We need the doctors to lead every campaign
We need the doctors to take this on
We need the doctors to be strong
We need the doctors to stand up in our name
There are so many issues
So many fights
From inequality to poverty
Don't mention gun rights
But if one million doctors
Were together in one lane
Imagine their power
How much they could change
Opioids are overused
A crisis now exists
Doctors serve as drug dispensers
For big pharma lobbyists
Who can end the nightmare?
What can stop the pain?
Possibly new legislation? Or something in that vein?
No, the remedy is Universal
Doctors unite
We need the doctors to lead the fight
We need the doctors to combine their might
We need the doctors to lead every campaign
We need the doctors to take this on
We need the doctors to be strong
We need the doctors to stand up in our name
We need the doctors to unite
We need the doctors to aim a strike
We need the doctors to get us out of this
The remedy is Universal
Doctors unite
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By Jack Stafford
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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 2018–2019 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.
Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:
DOCTORS UNITE
We need the doctors to lead the fight
We need the doctors to combine their might
We need the doctors to lead every campaign
We need the doctors to take this on
We need the doctors to be strong
We need the doctors to stand up in our name
Obesity is killing people
It's an epidemic
Heart disease is deadly
And it's become endemic
Who can end the nightmare
What can stop the pain?
Dieticians? Or marketing campaigns?
No, the remedy is Universal
Doctors unite
Doctors are stressed to breaking
By unnecessary work
Tied down to their keyboards
They are data entry clerks
Who can end the nightmare?
What can stop the pain?
Medical Administrators, this is their terrain
No, the remedy is Universal
Doctors unite
We need the doctors to lead the fight
We need the doctors to combine their might
We need the doctors to lead every campaign
We need the doctors to take this on
We need the doctors to be strong
We need the doctors to stand up in our name
There are so many issues
So many fights
From inequality to poverty
Don't mention gun rights
But if one million doctors
Were together in one lane
Imagine their power
How much they could change
Opioids are overused
A crisis now exists
Doctors serve as drug dispensers
For big pharma lobbyists
Who can end the nightmare?
What can stop the pain?
Possibly new legislation? Or something in that vein?
No, the remedy is Universal
Doctors unite
We need the doctors to lead the fight
We need the doctors to combine their might
We need the doctors to lead every campaign
We need the doctors to take this on
We need the doctors to be strong
We need the doctors to stand up in our name
We need the doctors to unite
We need the doctors to aim a strike
We need the doctors to get us out of this
The remedy is Universal
Doctors unite
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