Dr. Eric Topol

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Ground Truths · Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan · 12 Jun 2025 podcast

So it's horrible.

The main question, of course, is will we still be able to go forward or are we going to basically go even backwards in terms of all the advances?

I mean, this is such a momentous time in medicine.

Of all times for this to occur, we're making such remarkable strides and it's going to set us back.

It's also going to give an advantage to other countries around the world who are not going through this.

Yeah, so this is really the reason why we're moving into this hyper-accelerated phase of discovery and transforming medicine.

For one, we're seeing the discovery of new drugs.

In fact, a drug for a very severe lung condition that we don't have a good treatment for, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

This is the first AI-discovered drug that is now

passed a phase two trial, so it's pretty far along and it looks great, discovered by AI.

So that's one part of the story.

Another is that the way we practice in medicine is getting so much more efficient by just having our conversations made into synthetic notes that are far better than the notes that are in our...

This is freeing up two, three, four hours a day for clinicians, and it just keeps getting better.

And it's not just a note.

That whole AI product is being used to order the tests and do the coding and for future appointments, prescriptions, preauthorizations.

I mean, all the things that occupy physicians.

Exactly.

So that restoration of the patient-doctor relationship is starting to really take hold, which is great.

And of course, what I think is the biggest, most exciting frontier is using AI to extend our health span.

And this is something I think that up until now, we didn't realize how we have this truly remarkable opportunity.

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