Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

Doctors know medicine or literature, they don't know the patient. With Big Data, They would.

There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.

I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.

For some of these patients, he's more important than the doctors.