You get sick, you go to your doctor. Too bad. Because medicine isn\u2019t an industry, it\u2019s practically witchcraft. Despite the growth of big pharma, HMOs, and hospital chains, medicine remains the isolated work of individual doctors, and the system is going broke fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So why is Andy Kessler, the man who told you outrageous stories of Wall Street analysts gone bad in Wall Street Meat and tales from inside a hedge fund in Running money, poking around medicine for the next big wave of technology?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s because he smells change coming. Heart attacks, strokes, and cancer are a massive chunk of medical spending, yet there\u2019s surprisingly little effort to detect disease before it\u2019s life-threatening. How lame is that, primarily since the technology exists today to create computer-generated maps of your heart and colon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because it\u2019s too expensive, for now, but Silicon Valley has turned computing, telecom, finance, music, and media upside down by taking costly new technologies and making them ridiculously cheap. So why not the $1.8 trillion healthcare business, where the easiest way to save money is to stop folks from getting sick in the first place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Join Kessler\u2019s bizarre search for the next big breakthrough as he tries to keep from passing out while following cardiologists around, cracks jokes while reading mammograms, and watches twitching mice get injected with radioactive probes. Looking for a breakthrough, Kessler even selflessly pokes, scans, and prods himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CT scans of your heart will identify problems before you have a heart attack or stroke; a nanochip will search your blood for cancer cells\u2013five years before they grow uncontrollably and kill you, and baby boomers can breathe a little easier because it\u2019s all starting to happen now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your doctor can\u2019t be certain what\u2019s going on inside your body, but technology will. Embedding the knowledge of doctors in silicon will bring a breakout technology to health care, and we will soon see an end to medicine as we know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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