In this episode, we dive into the transformative potential and challenges of AI in healthcare with Charlotte Blease, an academic and author. Charlotte shares insights from her book, "Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail and How AI Could Save Lives," exploring how AI can address human limitations in medicine while also presenting new ethical and practical challenges. Join us as we discuss the balance between technology's promise and its pitfalls, and the future of healthcare in a digital age.
From her website:
I am an academic, author, and public speaker.
As an academic, I work as a health informaticist with a background in philosophy. I've published more than 160 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books on healthcare. I am Associate Professor (Docent) at the Participatory eHealth and Health Data Research Group at Uppsala University, Sweden and Researcher at Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
I am author of Dr Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail and How AI Could Save Lives (Yale, 2025), and co-author of The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick (Mayo, 2024).
During the past 20 years have held research appointments in departments of philosophy, psychology/cognitive science, & medical humanities in the UK, Ireland, and Germany. I spent 5 years at Harvard Medical School - first as a Fulbright Scholar, a Research Fellow, and for 3 years as a Keane Scholar.
My research has been profiled in diverse outlets: Time magazine, The New York Times, CNN, The Daily Mail, The Washington Post, The Guardian, El País, Aeon, The Sydney Morning Herald, Deutsche Welle, Haaretz, The Irish Times, The Independent, BBC, Sky News, STAT, Pulse, Medpage Today, and Psychology Today. My philosophy in schools outreach work has been recognized by the President of Ireland.
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