The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age

by Robert Wachter and Robert M. Wachter

Book Overview

The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare's #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US

While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills.

But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071849467
• ISBN13: 9780071849463
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Wrong edition sent

Thoroughly enjoyed the book, however we ordered a hardcover and received a paperback pre-release copy.