The Future of Medicine

Robert Wachter on the Digital Doctor, the Trust Gap, and Medicine's Next Giant Leap

May 17, 2026·35 min
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In this episode of the Future of Medicine, we welcome Dr. Robert Wachter, physician, author, and chair of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for a conversation about artificial intelligence, healthcare, and the future of medicine. Dr. Wachter reflects on how the digitization of healthcare reshaped modern medicine — and why many of the frustrations clinicians experience today, from burnout to endless documentation, emerged during the first wave of the electronic health r...

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