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Robert M. Wachter is an American physician, professor, and author known for his work in patient safety and healthcare quality.
Known for: The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
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The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
Written by physician and academic Robert Wachter, this book explores how the digital revolution is transforming healthcare. It examines the promises and pitfalls of electronic health records, big data, and artificial intelligence in medicine, offering a balanced view of how technology can both improve and complicate patient care.
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Historical Context: From Paper to Pixels
For most of its history, medicine operated on paper charts that were messy but fundamentally human. Those handwritten notes encoded stories, quirks, and clinical reasoning that reflected doctors’ individuality. Errors occurred, of course, but they were typically the result of human oversight, not di...
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The Promise of Digital Medicine
No revolution in healthcare begins without hope. The rise of electronic health records, predictive algorithms, and big data was heralded as a moral imperative to make medicine safer and more efficient. I share that optimism: the capacity to analyze vast datasets, detect patterns, and foresee disease...
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About Robert Wachter
Robert M. Wachter is an American physician, professor, and author known for his work in patient safety and healthcare quality. He serves as Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and has written extensively on the intersection of medicine and technology.
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