Fortress and Frontier: Healthcare’s Reluctant Revolution

Discourse Magazine Podcast

In this fifth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Eric Topol about the slow progress of medicine, how machine learning will improve healthcare, the importance of the doctor-patient relationship, the triumph of the mRNA vaccines and much more. Topol is a cardiologist, scientist and author of several books, including “The Patient Will See You Now” and “Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.” 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 the Scripps Clinic.

Previous installments of the Fortress and Frontier series include two conversations between Robert Graboyes and Temple Grandin. The first can be found here, and the second can be found here. The third installment is a conversation with Pradheep Shanker on COVID-19 data. The fourth is a discussion with Devi Shetty on India’s Narayana hospital system and innovations in healthcare.

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