#1147 Charlotte Blease - Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us―and How AI Could Save Lives

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined for a second time by Dr. Charlotte Blizz. And today we're going to talk about her latest book, Dr. Bot, Why Doctors Can Fail Us, and how AI could save life.

So Charlotte, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to have you one here. It's great to be here, Ricardo. Delighted to be here talking about the book. So in regards to how and why doctors can fail us, what are medical errors or what is medical error and how many people are affected by it?

Yeah, medical error is, it's estimated in one study in the States to be the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. So it's responsible for the deaths, certainly in the states where much of the research into these kinds of problems has has uh taken place. It's it affects a life, it kills about a quarter of a million people annually. So the way I I open the book, I say that every few days the equivalent of uh an Airbus, four Airbuses carrying 170 passengers.

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