How to Balance Short-Term Impact and Long-Term Research Interests

Pronov: As a researcher, one of the things I struggle with is short term impact and doing the thing that can affect the most people now. How do you balance that in your own research portfolio as for, okay, x-ray is the most important imaging modality today, but I know that in 10 years we might be able to do something else? Pronov: For me, it was a book, not so much a paper, which was the creative destruction of medicine. It's written by Dr. Eric Topol.