Eric Topol on Why Doctors Need to Organize

Eric Topol is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. He is editor-in-chief of Medscape and theheart.org. He has published three bestseller books on the future of medicine. The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2010), The Patient Will See You Now (2015), and Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (2019). He was also commissioned by the UK 2018–2019 to lead planning for the National Health Service's future workforce, integrating genomics, digital medicine, and artificial intelligence. In 2016, Topol was awarded a US$207 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a significant part of the Precision Medicine Initiative (All of Us Research Program), a one million American prospective research program. This is in addition to his role as principal investigator for a US$35 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to promote innovation in medicine and the education and career training of future medical researchers.

Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:

DOCTORS UNITE

We need the doctors to lead the fight

We need the doctors to combine their might

We need the doctors to lead every campaign



We need the doctors to take this on

We need the doctors to be strong

We need the doctors to stand up in our name



Obesity is killing people

It's an epidemic

Heart disease is deadly

And it's become endemic



Who can end the nightmare

What can stop the pain?

Dieticians? Or marketing campaigns?

No, the remedy is Universal

Doctors unite



Doctors are stressed to breaking

By unnecessary work

Tied down to their keyboards

They are data entry clerks



Who can end the nightmare?

What can stop the pain?

Medical Administrators, this is their terrain

No, the remedy is Universal

Doctors unite



We need the doctors to lead the fight

We need the doctors to combine their might

We need the doctors to lead every campaign



We need the doctors to take this on

We need the doctors to be strong

We need the doctors to stand up in our name



There are so many issues

So many fights

From inequality to poverty

Don't mention gun rights



But if one million doctors

Were together in one lane

Imagine their power

How much they could change



Opioids are overused

A crisis now exists

Doctors serve  as drug dispensers

For big pharma lobbyists



Who can end the nightmare?

What can stop the pain?

Possibly new legislation? Or something in that vein?

No, the remedy is Universal

Doctors unite



We need the doctors to lead the fight

We need the doctors to combine their might

We need the doctors to lead every campaign



We need the doctors to take this on

We need the doctors to be strong

We need the doctors to stand up in our name



We need the doctors to unite

We need the doctors to aim a strike

We need the doctors to get us out of this



The remedy is Universal

Doctors unite

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