Eric Topol

everything here, which is so great about your book.

One other personal story about your 82-year-old mother.

Can you just give us the skinny how she emerged from having a really bad back injury?

Yeah.

Right, right.

Well, it helps to have a great neurosurgeon to help on that one, especially.

Oh, my goodness.

I assume you weren't part of that procedure.

No.

Right, right.

If anybody knows about operating on the spine, you would be the one.

Now, getting into some of the new stuff here, you know, it used to be rice, and now it's meat, the acronyms.

Can you run through that one?

Well, backing that up and how we have a whole new approach, for all the years, people with low back pain were told to rest in bed.

And then random trials were done and showed, hey, you know what?

Mobilize.

You're going to have a whole lot quicker and more impressive recovery.

So it goes right along with meat instead of rice.

That's right.

You know, one of the things, the new frontiers of pain management are really exciting, and you get to them in the book.