Dr Charlotte Blease, the author of Dr Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us – and How AI Could Save Lives, will visit Sydney and Melbourne in March on a promotional book tour.
Dr Blease is Associate Professor in Health Informatics at Uppsala University and researcher in Digital Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
She was recently interviewed on PULSE the Podcast by co-host Dr Louise Schaper, who will join Dr Blease for Q&A events at Gleebooks in Sydney on Tuesday March 3, and at the Marty Martin Bookshop in Melbourne on Tuesday March 10.
In the podcast interview, Dr Charlotte Blease says her new book talks about how AI could play a role in improving consultations, reducing information asymmetry and supporting both patients and clinicians in making better decisions.
“I structured the book to be accessible from both patient and doctor perspectives. Starting with the familiar journey – symptoms, making an appointment, consultation, diagnosis, and treatment – I wanted to break it down into its psychological challenges and explore whether technology could address them,” she said.
She says technology should be designed to work with human psychology, helping doctors and patients overcome biases, information overload and system pressures.
“It’s going to be harder and harder to ignore the voice of patients because technology is empowering patients in a way that is very hard to deny. The fact of the matter is it’s empowering doctors as well – not just through your ambient AI tool that’s helping you with your documentation – but in terms of even as a diagnostic tool.”
Both Sydney and Melbourne events are at 6pm for a 6.30pm start.
