Eric Topol

I know the book was formally published yesterday.

Is that right?

Yeah, no, it's really...

Very thoughtful.

And we're going to go through some of the really great points in it because you have nailed some of the issues that we are confronting to get us to a much healthier state, both as Americans or globally, and also as a personal health story.

Now, one of the things that I thought was so perfect that you delved into was the Cassandra curse.

This is kind of a cornerstone of the book.

and you take it to great extent.

So maybe you can start with that about the Greek mythology, this curse, and how it all applies to getting us healthier.

Well, no, that's great.

I mean, what I want to do is I want to show this graph to everybody, this figure 1.1, okay, this graph.

Here we go.

You see how that hockey stick takes off right there?

No intervention or intervention.

This is a famous from the book.

You're in the situation room.

You are now trying to convince, talk about a Cassandra curse, right?

You're trying to convince it's 2014.

Ebola is warming up.

People are dying and nothing is being done.