For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.