Article: Dean - Do Doctors Exhibit Plasticity?

Dean's Stroke Musing

This is the title of one of the chapters in The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution (Amazon) will create better health care by  Eric Topol. A couple of quotes...

Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet:

Medical education is fundamentally conservative, indoctrinating  new generations into the failed ways of the old. For too long we have hugged the shore of safe and acceptable tradition.

Jay Parkinson, Fast company:

We're using 3,000 year old tools to deliver health care in the richest country on the planet.

Dr. Topol states:

Of all the professions represented on the planet, perhaps none is more resistant to change than physicians. If there were ever a group defined by lacking plasticity, it would first apply to doctors.

My doctor fell into this non-plastic group, no knowledge of plasticity, Saebo or any idea how to communicate. In the 1960s, Paul Bach-y-Rita proved neuroplasticity.  Some fascinating ideas in the book on continuous monitoring - for us that could be blood pressure, warfarin/INR levels. Read it and bring those ideas to your researchers.

See the original article  Do Doctors Exhibit Plasticity? in Dean's Stroke Musing.