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Dr. Bot

Why Doctors Can Fail Us—and How AI Could Save Lives

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    2 March 2027

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Summary

How does AI compare to a doctor when it comes to saving lives?

Doctors are under-resourced and face unprecedented levels of stress, with rising patient numbers and ever developing medical knowledge. But at the same time, they are all too human, prone to racial, class and social biases that affect the care patients receive.

Can we improve patient experience and alleviate the burdens of doctors at the same time?

In this groundbreaking study, Charlotte Bl…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780300306149
ISBN-10:0300306148
Author:Charlotte Blease
Publisher:Yale University Press
Imprint:Yale University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:2 March 2027
Dimensions:127mm x 197mm
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Dr. Bot by Charlotte Blease - ISBN: 9780300306149
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Critics Review

“Blease’s arguments have reframed how I think about AI’s role in medicine.”—Dr Leana Wen, The Washington Post

“Change is inevitable and, as Blease’s thought-provoking book shows, necessary.”—Nick Rennison, Daily Mail

“[Blease’s] evidence-driven sceptical approach is part of what makes this such a good book.”—Nigel Warburton, New World

“Blease … sets professional pretensions against the lived reality of patients and uses this to set out the many ways in which suprahuman intelligence is bound to serve patients better.”—Richard Lehman, British Journal of General Practice

“I learned a lot from this book … a timely reminder that as a society we need to have the conversation about what we want health care to look like.”—Rageshri Dhairyawan, The Lancet

“Brilliant… . A thorough, insightful, and timely exploration.”—Kenneth D. Mandl, Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School

“Medical professionals will no doubt wince. But patients should rejoice. This is a superb vision of the future of health care. I enjoyed the book immensely. Mandatory reading for doctors and policymakers.”—Professor Richard Susskind CBE KC (Hon), author of How to Think About AI and coauthor of The Future of the Professions

“Few books manage to be this beautifully written and this unsparing. Dr. Bot is both a searing critique of medicine-as-we-know-it and a hopeful exploration of what care could become. Blease brings deep insight and rare clarity to one of the most urgent conversations of our time.”—Maxine Mackintosh, Alan Turing Institute

“Dr. Bot is an intelligent, incisive exploration of why even the best doctors are only human—and why, if used wisely, AI could transform healthcare for the better.”—Steve Stewart-Williams, Professor of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia

“With a lively mix of medical data, ethics, and ethnography, Blease covers the waterfront of what Artificial Intelligence might mean for medicine and what to do about it. The result is a highly readable, and surprisingly human, discussion of technological change.”—I. Glenn Cohen, JD, Deputy Dean and James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

About The Author

Charlotte Blease

Charlotte Blease is a health researcher exploring how AI can transform patient care by changing how healthcare works, making it more effective, ethical and responsive in ways humans alone cannot achieve. She focuses on what technology can do for patients, not just how AI works. She is currently Associate Professor at Uppsala University and Researcher at Harvard Medical School.

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