A great read. He navigates the space clearly and brings a huge wealth of personal experiences and anecdotes to the topics. All aspects of healthcare technology are addressed and he takes a broad perspective covering viewpoints of providers, payers, drug companies, docs and patients. His arguments are balanced and well articulated. Essential reading for anyone in the healthcare technology field. There is no doubt that the majority of the content will come to be, in time, given the massive pressures on the system right now.Two issues with the book. Firstly he goes into way too much detail with the genetic sequencing content and totally lost me for large swathes of the narrative. I don't feel this detailed examination is required....for lay people. And up to this point the content was high level. So this content didn't really flow. Secondly he repeats him self often and goes over the same ground over and over again. So with these two points in mind probably the book could have been shorter. This book has a lot of promise but I found myself getting bogged down and skipping around after 80 pages or so. The chapters on biology and anatomy felt like I was reading a textbook. At times this book is written more for a doubting medical professional than a patient. A lot of good info in here but it needs the Malcolm Gladwell touch. The doctor has passion and I'd want him taking care of me but I couldn't "eat" the whole thing.
A glimpse of the possibilities of medicine, if we encourage innovation.
—dion0595
Very interesting ideas, though the book is a bit of a slog.
—ladyeizen_23
Really quite boring
—boboparis
