Articles
Selected Lay Press
By Robert Wachter
Stop Worrying and Let AI Help Save Your Life, The New York Times, January 19, 2026
This is the Most Dangerous Moment to be Unvaccinated, The Washington Post, April 19, 2021
Tweeting a Pandemic, UCSF Magazine, Summer, 2020
Vigilance Had a Three-Month Shelf Life, The Atlantic, July 10, 2020
The Problem with Miracle Cancer Cures, The New York Times, April 19, 2018
How Measurement Fails Doctors and Teachers, The New York Times, January 16, 2016
Featuring Robert Wachter
'ChatGPT saved my life.' How Patients, and Doctors, are Using AI to Make a Diagnosis, NPR, January 30, 2026
Doctors Increasingly See AI Scribes in a Positive Light, but Hiccups Persist, ABC News, January 26, 2026
We Found What You’re Asking ChatGPT About Health. A Doctor Scored Its Answers, The Washington Post, November 18, 2025
Empathic, Available, Cheap: When AI Offers What Doctors Don’t, The New York Times, November 16, 2025
Are AI Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs? The New York Times, August 28, 2025
‘Behind the Times’: Washington Tries to Catch Up with AI’s Use in Healthcare, San Francisco Chronicle, February 15, 2024
A Doctor Known for Assessing Covid Risk Fell Ill With the Virus. Here’s What He Wants You to Know. CNN Health, July 16, 2023
How Does This End? Thinking About Covid and Normalcy, The New York Times, November 12, 2021
Digital Tools for Health Come With ‘Hope, Hype, and Harm’, NPR Shots, April 14, 2015
Selected Professional Articles
Adler-Milstein J, Redelmeier DA, Wachter RM. The limits of clinician vigilance as a patient safety bulwark. Journal of the American Medical Association, March 14, 2024.
Wachter RM, Brynjolfsson E. Will generative artificial intelligence deliver on its promise in health care? Journal of the American Medical Association, 2024; 331:65-69.
Wachter RM, Cassel CK. Sharing healthcare data with digital giants: overcoming obstacles and reaping benefits while protecting patients. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2020; Jan 16.
Emanuel EJ, Wachter RM. Artificial intelligence in healthcare: Will the value match the hype? Journal of the American Medical Association, 2019; 321:2281-82.
Wachter RM, Howell MD. Resolving the productivity paradox of health information technology. A time for optimism? Journal of the American Medical Association, 2018; 320:25-26.
Wachter RM, Verghese A. The attending physician on the wards: finding a new homeostasis. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2012; 308:1-3.
Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ. Balancing 'no blame' with accountability in patient safety. New England Journal of Medicine, 2009; 361:1401
Wachter RM. Expected and unanticipated consequences of the quality and information technology revolutions. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006; 295:2780-3.
Auerbach AD, Wachter RM, Katz P, Showstack J, Baron RB, Goldman L. Implementation of a voluntary hospitalist service at a community teaching hospital: Improved clinical efficiency and patient outcomes. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2002; 137:859-865.
Wachter RM, Goldman L. The emerging role of "hospitalists" in the American health care system. New England Journal of Medicine, 1996; 335:514-7.