Description
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Digital Doctor comes an engaging, clear-eyed, and ultimately hopeful examination of healthcares efforts to embrace generative artificial intelligence.
In A Giant Leap, physician and thought leader Robert Wachter navigates between hype and skepticism to make a compelling case for AIs power to transform healthcare. He argues that, in a system buckling under the weight of bureaucratic pressures, soaring costs, and clinician burnout, AI doesnt need to be perfectit only needs to be better.
Drawing on extensive research and more than 100 interviews with pioneers across medicine, technology, policy, and business, Wachter shows how AI is already entering hospitals and clinics to draft notes, field patient questions, recommend treatments, interpret images, and guide surgeries. He unflinchingly confronts risks like hallucinations, biases, and misinformation, while revealing how AI can now match, and sometimes surpass, physicians in areas ranging from diagnosis to empathy.
But this isnt simply a technology story. Its about the human choices that will determine whether AI becomes healthcares salvation or another source of harm and frustration.
Blending clinical insight, vivid storytelling, and journalistic precision, A Giant Leap offers an indispensable roadmap for healthcare leaders, clinicians, and patients. It is a vibrant and timely account of how AI is changing what it means to careand be cared forin this age of astonishing technology.
Author: Robert Wachter
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Portfolio
Published: 02/03/2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9798217044245
Language: English
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