About Robert Wachter, MD
Bob Wachter is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
He has appeared on Modern Healthcare magazine’s list of the 50 most influential physician-executives in the US more than a dozen times; he was #1 on the list in 2015.
An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, he coined the term “hospitalist” and is considered the father of the hospitalist field, the fastest-growing specialty in the history of medicine.
He is the author of five previous books, including the New York Times bestseller The Digital Doctor.
His new book is A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future.
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A Giant Leap
How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Digital Doctor comes an engaging, clear-eyed, and ultimately hopeful examination of healthcare’s efforts to embrace generative artificial intelligence.
In A Giant Leap, physician and thought leader Robert Wachter navigates between hype and skepticism to make a compelling case for AI’s power to transform healthcare. He argues that, in a system buckling under the weight of bureaucratic pressures, soaring costs, and clinician burnout, AI doesn’t need to be perfect—it only needs to be better.
Why I’m optimistic about AI in Healthcare,
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