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Eric Topol on Deep Medicine

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The Importance of Time in Medicine

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I don't deny the reality that our current system has atrocious incentives for spending too much money with very little return. The question is how do we get there from here? I don't think there's a lot of face to face long periods of doctor patient interaction in the rest of the world either. That's medicine at a global level that is deficient in time. In Asia, in many parts of Asia, it's two minutes in an appointment instead of seven. So it has to get better. But just getting back to the UK model because in the US, as you know, life expectancy has decreased three years in a row. It's never been the case of any country having less

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