Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

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 ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

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

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

I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. 'Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.' So they're looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything.