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Pablo Garcia went to the hospital feeling fine. Then hospital technology made him very sick. In this in-depth narrative, Bob Wachter explores how high-tech medicine endangers patients— and how we can make it safer.
How Medical Tech Gave a Patient a Massive Overdose
Beware of the Robot Pharmacist
Why Clinicians Let Their Computers Make Mistakes
Should Hospitals Be More Like Airplanes?
How to Make Hospital Tech Much, Much Safer
Excerpted from The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, by Robert Wachter. McGraw-Hill, 2015. You can buy the book here.
Illustrated by Lisk Feng
