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 by Robert Wachter
Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of America's leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic, despite a state-of-the-art computerized prescribing system? How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absence of an electronic medical record as a major selling point?
Robert Wachter, MD Professor of Medicine Associate Chair, Department of Medicine UCSF School of Medicine Dr. Wachter is one of the world’s true leaders in patient safety and health quality, and first author of Internal Bleeding, a trade book about patient safety that spent several weeks on the best seller lists. He is Associate Chair of one of the world’s best Internal Medicine programs. He is one of the founders and chief operators of the great health quality and safety web site, www.webmm.ahrq.gov.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780071849463 |
| ISBN 10 | 0071849467 |
| Title | The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age |
| Author | Robert Wachter |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe |
| Year published | 2015-05-16 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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