Daily Briefing: The Atlantic's Interview with Dr. Eric Topol

Worth your time today: David Ewing Duncan's Atlantic Q&A with cardiologist Eric Topol, one of the first researchers to warn about the dangers of the painkiller Vioxx and a leading critic of the links between academia and the pharmaceutical industry. The Q&A focuses on Topol's new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine.

Eric Topol has now written a book that calls for the "creative destruction" of the current medical paradigm, which he believes has failed to keep up with the digitized world of interactivity, social media, computers, apps, and advanced engineering and electronics. In the book, written in that same half-smile style of good humor and authority, Topol blasts current-day medicine as being archaic and wasteful, making his case with a compelling blend of statistics, anecdotes, and barbs aimed at health care's Ancien Régime.

Here's a Boston Globe review of Topol's book.

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