Pablo Garcia arrived at the hospital in good condition. Then the technology of the hospital made him very ill. In this in-depth narrative, Bob Wachter explores how high-tech medicine puts patients at risk — and how we can make it safer.
How medical technology makes patients suffer from mass overdose
Be careful with Robot Pharmacist
Why do clinicians let their computers fail?
Should a hospital be more like an airplane?
How to Make High-Tech Hospital, Much Safer
Taken from Digital Doctor: Hope, Exaggeration, and Harm in the Computer Age of the Dawn of Medicine, by Robert Wachter. McGraw-Hill, 2015. You can buy the book here.
Illustrated by Lisk Feng