What Robert Wachter thinks about robotics
Professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF who writes about patient safety, hospital medicine and technology in healthcare. Author of A Giant Leap (2026). Writes Pattern Recognition, a newsletter on healthcare AI.
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Their wordsFor the foreseeable future, it's more likely that AI and robots will assist nurses in performing their jobs more effectively - enabling them to practice closer to the top of their license - than replace those jobs entirely.
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