Uncharted Episode 17: The Digital Doctor

As healthcare has gone digital, Bob Wachter, Chairman of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, noticed plenty of problems. 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 can we make sure doctors and the digital world make things better for patients?

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Uncharted Episode 17: The Digital Doctor is an episode from Berkeleyside Podcast by Berkeleyside.

This episode is 38:49 long.

This episode was published on Jun 9, 2017.

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