Robert Wachter, MD

Physician. Author. Thought Leader.

For three decades, Dr. Robert Wachter has helped his profession and the public understand healthcare’s biggest movements, including its vexingly slow digital transformation.

Now, in A Giant Leap, he draws on his experience as a practicing physician, hospital leader, and bestselling author to deliver the essential guide to the AI revolution in medicine.

A GIANT LEAP

How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future

An engaging, clear-eyed, and ultimately hopeful examination of healthcare’s efforts to embrace generative artificial intelligence.

“Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand where medicine is heading.”

—Ethan Mollick, New York Times bestselling author of Co-Intelligence

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“A clear-eyed road map of Al's potential in medicine.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“An accessible, often fascinating primer on AI tools changing clinical practice… Essential, illuminating reading.”
—Kirkus
“An engaging, hype-free case for informed optimism.”
—Eric Topol, MD, bestselling author of Super Agers and Deep Medicine
“A Giant Leap is a book that thinks alongside you—and demands that you think back.”
—Sherry Turkle, bestselling author of The Second Self and Reclaiming Conversation
“Wachter demonstrates his gift for anticipating and digesting the big movements in science and healthcare.”
—Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water