The Digital Doctor
Book description
The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare's #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US
While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Digital Doctor as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I met Dr. Wachter, at the University of California in San Francisco and we were discussing the applicability of technology in a patient’s hospital room to improve care.
I was introduced to his book and was mesmorized. It was one of my early conversations from a clinician stressing that we need technology, computers to be invisible not irresistible in healthcare.
He writes compelling stories about medical errors which only by the stroke of luck didn’t cause a fatality. It reminded me of my sister-in-law who was misdiagnosed as being Type 2 diabetes when she was Type 1.
This misdiagnosis could…
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