巨大飞跃：人工智能如何重塑医疗，以及这对我们未来意味着什么A Giant Leap:How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our FutureRobert Wachter, MD

基本信息

Book Details

ISBN-13: 9798217044245

Author: Robert Wachter

Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc

Imprint: Portfolio

Format: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 352

Release Date: 3 February 2026

Weight: 532g

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

巨跃：人工智能在医疗保健领域的变革力量

本书作者罗伯特·瓦赫特（Robert Wachter）是《数字医生》的作者，他大胆而深刻地探讨了人工智能如何革新医疗保健，以及这为何至关重要。

“客观公正，见解深刻。”——《出版商周刊》（星级评论）“一本通俗易懂、引人入胜的入门读物，发人深省。”——《科克斯评论》

本书作者罗伯特·瓦赫特是《纽约时报》畅销书《数字医生》的作者，他以引人入胜、冷静客观且充满希望的视角，审视了医疗保健领域为拥抱生成式人工智能所做的努力。

在《巨跃》一书中，医生兼思想领袖罗伯特·瓦赫特在炒作和怀疑之间游刃有余，有力地论证了人工智能变革医疗保健的潜力。他认为，在一个不堪重负、成本飙升、临床医生倦怠的医疗体系中，人工智能无需完美——它只需要做得更好。

沃克特基于广泛的研究和对医学、科技、政策和商业领域100多位先驱者的采访，揭示了人工智能如何逐步进入医院和诊所，用于撰写病历、解答患者疑问、推荐治疗方案、解读影像以及指导手术。他毫不回避幻觉、偏见和错误信息等风险，同时指出人工智能如今在诊断和同理心等领域已能与医生比肩，甚至在某些方面超越医生。

但这不仅仅是一个技术故事。它关乎人类的选择，这些选择将决定人工智能究竟是成为医疗保健的救星，还是又一个带来伤害和挫败的源泉。

《巨大的飞跃》融合了临床洞察、生动的叙事和新闻报道的精准性，为医疗保健领导、临床医生和患者提供了一份不可或缺的路线图。它生动而及时地讲述了在这个科技飞速发展的时代，人工智能如何改变医疗服务以及被医疗服务的意义。

Summary

A Giant Leap: AI’s Transformative Power in Healthcare

From the author of The Digital Doctor comes a bold, insightful exploration of how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing healthcare—and why that matters.

“Evenhanded and insightful.” -Publisher’s Weekly (starred review) “An accessible, often fascinating primer…. Essential, illuminating reading.” -Kirkus

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Digital Doctor comes an engaging, clear-eyed, and ultimately hopeful examination of healthcare’s efforts to embrace generative artificial intelligence.

In A Giant Leap, physician and thought leader Robert Wachter navigates between hype and skepticism to make a compelling case for AI’s power to transform healthcare. He argues that, in a system buckling under the weight of bureaucratic pressures, soaring costs, and clinician burnout, AI doesn’t need to be perfect—it only needs to be better.

Drawing on extensive research and more than 100 interviews with pioneers across medicine, technology, policy, and business, Wachter shows how AI is already entering hospitals and clinics to draft notes, field patient questions, recommend treatments, interpret images, and guide surgeries. He unflinchingly confronts risks like hallucinations, biases, and misinformation, while revealing how AI can now match, and sometimes surpass, physicians in areas ranging from diagnosis to empathy.

But this isn’t simply a technology story. It’s about the human choices that will determine whether AI becomes healthcare’s salvation or another source of harm and frustration.

Blending clinical insight, vivid storytelling, and journalistic precision, A Giant Leap offers an indispensable roadmap for healthcare leaders, clinicians, and patients. It is a vibrant and timely account of how AI is changing what it means to care—and be cared for—in this age of astonishing technology.

作者简介

罗伯特·瓦赫特是加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）内科系主任，同时也是该校霍莉·史密斯杰出科学与医学教授，并担任贝尼奥夫医院医学讲席教授。他曾十余次荣登《现代医疗保健》杂志评选的美国五十位具影响力的医生高管榜单，并在2015年位列榜首。作为享有盛誉的美国国家医学科学院院士，他创造了“医院医师”（hospitalist）一词，并被誉为医院医师领域的奠基人，而医院医师领域也是现代医学中发展快的专科。他著有五本书，其中包括《数字医生：医学计算机时代曙光中的希望、炒作与危害》。他的妻子是作家兼记者凯蒂·哈夫纳，他们与爱犬纽曼（一只迷你贵宾犬）一起生活在旧金山。

Robert Wachter is chair of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he is also the Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine and holds the Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine. He has appeared more than a dozen times on Modern Healthcare magazine’s list of the fifty most influential physician-executives in the US and was number one on the list in 2015. An elected mem­ber of the prestigious National Academy of Medicine, he coined the term “hospitalist” and is considered the father of the hospitalist field, the fastest-growing specialty in modern medicine. He is the author of five books, including The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age. He is married to author and journalist Katie Hafner; they live in San Francisco with their miniature poodle, Newman.