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

About the Author

Robert Wachter is professor and associate chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he directs the 60-physician Division of Hospital Medicine. A practicing physician, he is also the author of 250 articles and five prior books. He coined the term hospitalist in 1996 and is generally considered the father of the hospitalist field, the fastest-growing specialty in the history of modern medicine. He is past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine and past chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine. In 2004, he received the John M. Eisenberg Award, the nation’s top honor in patient safety. For the past seven years, Modern Healthcare magazine has named him one of the 50 most ...