{"product_id":"the-end-of-medicine-how-silicon-valley-and-naked-mice-will-reboot-your-doctor-9780061130311","title":"The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou get sick; you go to your doctor. Too bad. Because medicine isn't an industry, it's practically witchcraft. Despite the growth of big pharma, HMOs, and hospital chains, medicine remains the isolated work of individual doctors--and the system is going broke fast. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo why is Andy Kessler--the man who told you outrageous stories of Wall Street analysts gone bad in \u003cem\u003eWall Street Meat\u003c\/em\u003e and tales from inside a hedge fund in \u003cem\u003eRunning Money\u003c\/em\u003e--poking around medicine for the next big wave of technology? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's because he smells change coming. Heart attacks, strokes, and cancer are a huge chunk of medical spending, yet there's surprisingly little effort to detect disease before it's life threatening. How lame is that--especially since the technology exists today to create computer-generated maps of your heart and colon? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause it's too expensive--for now. But Silicon Valley has turned computing, telecom, finance, music, and media upside down by taking expensive new technologies and making them ridiculously cheap. So why not the $1.8 trillion health care business, where the easiest way to save money is to stop folks from getting sick in the first place? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoin Kessler's bizarre search for the next big breakthrough as he tries to keep from passing out while following cardiologists around, cracks jokes while reading mammograms, and watches twitching mice get injected with radioactive probes. Looking for a breakthrough, Kessler even selflessly pokes, scans, and prods himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCT scans of your heart will identify problems before you have a heart attack or stroke; a nanochip will search your blood for cancer cells--five years before they grow uncontrollably and kill you; and baby boomers can breathe a little easier because it's all starting to happen now. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour doctor can't be certain what's going on inside your body, but technology will. Embedding the knowledge of doctors in silicon will bring a breakout technology to health care, and we will soon see an end of medicine as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andy Kessler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Business\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.78h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061130311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKessler, Andy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter turning $100 million into $1 billion riding the technology wave of the late 1990s, Andy Kessler recounted his experiences on Wall Street and in the trenches of the hedge fund industry in the books \u003cem\u003eWall Street Meat\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRunning Money\u003c\/em\u003e (and its companion volume, \u003cem\u003eHow We Got Here\u003c\/em\u003e). Though he has retired from actively managing other people's money, he remains a passionate and curious investor. Unable to keep his many opinions to himself, he contributes to the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWired\u003c\/em\u003e, and lots of Web sites on a variety of Wall Street and technology-related topics, and is often seen on CNBC, FOX, and CNN. He lives in Silicon Valley like all the other tech guys. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Business","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39921824071795,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_fa1d5bc1-c8db-490f-810a-750ba82aaee7.jpg?v=1647352060","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-end-of-medicine-how-silicon-valley-and-naked-mice-will-reboot-your-doctor-9780061130311","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}