Some fascinating opinions are shared in this Medscape video featuring Eric Topol MD, Cardiologist and author of the Creative Destruction of Medicine.

I think this highlights how important it is to challenge accepted wisdom because whilst the home may be “a lot more comfortable” it’s not always going to be “a lot less expensive”.

Whilst I don’t personally share Eric’s opinion that office and hospital visits will be of little use in the future (because I think they will be used far more appropriately by patients who we know need to be using them), his appreciation of the failings of the conventional undocumented rushed revolving door style of office consultation that neither patient or Doctor are prepared for are spot on:

“Let’s also look at the physician office visit. The average office visit in the United States is somewhere between 7 and 12 minutes, and the average…