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UCSF's Robert Wachter Explores the 'Hope, Hype and Harm' of Health Care's Digital Transformation

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When a computer error led to a near-deadly antibiotic overdose for a young patient, Bay Area physician Robert Wachter started questioning some of the hype about how technology is transforming medicine. We’ll talk to the UCSF professor about his recently published book, “The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age.”

Guests:

Dr. Robert Wachter, professor and interim chair in the Department of Medicine, UCSF

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