The Problem With Silicon Valley Medicine

In this video, Rohin Francis, MBBS, reviews modern health trends and the dangers of unsupported medical claims. The following is a transcript of this video; note that errors are possible. Francis: There is so much that I could say about the collision of the worlds of Silicon Valley and the mindset that drives it, sometimes referred to as the "tech bros," with the world of medicine and the strange bedfellows that they make. I will explore many of the phenomena that arise when this happens in future videos, things like novelty bias, where you assume that something new must be better. While this normally holds true for computing and we're all familiar with Moore's law, it very commonly isn't true in medicine, with many new and exciting therapies being quietly or occasionally loudly shelved years later for being useless or worse, harmful, or how Silicon Valley's motto of "move fast and break things" can be catastrophic for medicine. If you want to hear more about tech and medicine, then please do consider subscribing. But for this video, I want to focus on one aspect, the obsession with data. The belief that if we just measure more and more we can unlock the secrets of the human body. We can use 100% of our brain, become immortal, and transform into supernatural beings comprised of pure energy.