Dr. Bot, 9780300247145
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Human doctors failing? AI may be the better path to health.
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Dr. Bot

why doctors can fail us—and how ai could save lives

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  • Hardcover

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    9 September 2025

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Summary

Dr. Bot: How AI is Revolutionizing Healthcare

A provocative account that looks at why human doctors are failing their patients—and how AI is better placed to save lives

Hundreds of thousands of people die every year, not from a plane crash or a shooting incident, but from misdiagnosis at the hands of those we most trust with our health: doctors. Today doctors are facing unprecedented levels of stress, with rising patient numbers and a constant evolution of m…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780300247145
ISBN-10:0300247141
Author:Charlotte Blease
Publisher:Yale University Press
Imprint:Yale University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:9 September 2025
Weight:0g
Dimensions:235mm x 152mm
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Critics Review

“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 co-author 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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