EXPERTS ON EXPERT: Dr. Eric Topol | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Eric Topol argues that the current US healthcare system is broken due to 'shallow medicine,' characterized by diagnostic errors, fragmented data, and insufficient patient-doctor interaction time.summaryGenomic Risk Scoring: Polygenic risk scores derived from data like 23andMe can predict heart disease risk more precisely than traditional factors (smoking, diet, etc.). Dr. Topol revealed his own score was 92/100 despitetakeawayData Fragmentation: The US healthcare system suffers from fragmented data across different providers (Epic, Cerner), preventing holistic analysis. Estonia is cited as a model where individuals own their data on a blockchtakeaway














