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In The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the digital revolution will create better health care, geneticist Eric Topol argues for personalised medicine

BY THE end of this book, geneticist Eric Topol explains his intent has not been to provide a “techno-tour” of how the digital revolution will change healthcare. From the title, that’s what I had expected. Instead, I got an eye-opening account of why conventional medicine is doomed.

According to Topol, modern medicine’s focus on the…

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