The creative destruction of medicine...

“One of our passengers needs medical attention. If there are any doctors on board, please ring your call button.” A doctor was quickly escorted to the passenger having chest pains. He pulled out his smartphone, but rather than making a phone call, he got the passenger to place his fingers on the sensors on the back of his custom iPhone that measures pulse; the real-time electrocardiogram displayed on the iPhone indicated a heart attack. The plane made an unscheduled landing and the patient lived. Science fiction? No. It's already happened, and the doctor in question was influential cardiologist Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute. Mehr