Can you say that?

That is the surveillance system.

And so my TED wish is based on the common denominator of these experiences.

Smallpox early detection, early response.

For maybe about 10 percent of prostate cancer, there are folks that are predisposed to it.

But soon we may see polio eradicated.

When we decide that everybody with one of these brain disorders, brain circuit disorders, has a behavioral disorder we wait until the behavior becomes manifest.

The good news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

We wait until the behavior becomes manifest.

The good news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

The key to eradicating smallpox was early detection, early response.

Blindness, polio early detection, early response.

But perhaps most interesting, to me anyway, and most important, is the idea of diagnosing a disease much earlier on in the progression, and then treating the disease to cure the disease instead of treating a symptom.

Now, if we had an undo button, and we could go back and isolate it and grab it when it first started if we could find it early, and we had early detection and early response, and we could put each one of those viruses in jail that's the only way to deal with something like a pandemic.

The press calls my particular volantor a Skycar.

Compound transmission of the pandemonium with percussion and spasmodic frantic disintegration!

Remarkable stories, good news stories, all of which boil down to understanding something about the diseases that has allowed us to detect early and intervene early.

These are now two years out.

So, as an aside, I firmly believe in the field of trying to identify cancer early.

A surveillance system was necessary, because what we needed was early detection, early response.

We can give glucose a sensor for diabetes to prevent it.

The condition might go on for a long time.

And using these kinds of measures and many others, what we found out is that our science could, in fact, identify this condition early on.

My withdrawal symptoms...

It's an early warning system.

This is too soon.

Yes. She had multiple sclerosis.

It comes as a part of our everyday learning.

If you take it early enough, yeah.

An isolated episode of transient global amnesia.

As you know, this is the main symptom of early onset Alzheimer's disease.

You know, I know very well, as a cancer doctor, I can't treat advanced cancer.

We expect an early settlement of the affair.

We are social to the core.

Trachoma is an infection of the eye due to dirt getting into your eye.

Let's start early, shall we?

Let's leave early.

But what really drives these numbers, this high morbidity and to some extent the high mortality, is the fact that these start very early in life.

I had an angina attack.

And eventually Snow made a map of the outbreak.

Well, he was the guy who discovered the condition.

It's too soon to tell.

I shall want your help to night. At what time?

I can tell you, this has been probably something that has changed my life in the past 10 years, this notion that we can absolutely attenuate this condition.

Why don't you start the fucking car?