Robert M. Wachter
Robert M. "Bob" Wachter is an academic physician and author. He is on the faculty of University of California, San Francisco, where he is chairman of the Department of Medicine, the Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine, and the Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine. He is generally regarded as the academic leader of the hospitalist movement; he and a colleague, Lee Goldman, are known for coining the term "hospitalist" in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article.[1]
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| Born | 1957 New York City, New York, US |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania, B.A., University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, MD |
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| Institutions | University of California, San Francisco |
Education
He completed a residency in internal medicine at UCSF, then became a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar in Health Policy, Ethics, and Epidemiology in 1990.[2]
Later, in 2011, Wachter studied patient safety and hospital medicine at Imperial College London as a Fulbright Scholar.[3]
Books
References
- Wachter R, Goldman L (1996). "The emerging role of 'hospitalists' in the American health care system". N Engl J Med. 335 (7): 514–7. doi:10.1056/NEJM199608153350713. PMID 8672160.
- "Welcome to Wachter's World - Penn Medicine". www.pennmedicine.org. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
- "Bob Wachter". ucsfhealth.org. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
External links
- "Doctors are Tweeting about Coronavirus to Make Facts go Viral"" By Georgia Wells, "The Wall Street Journal", 2020.
- "Zero to 50,000: The 20th Anniversary of the Hospitalist" By Robert M. Wachter, MD and Lee Goldman, MD, 2016.
- "Making IT Work: Harnessing the Power of Health Information Technology to Improve Care in England" By Robert M. Wachter and the NHS Health IT Advisory Board, 2016.
- "Robert Wachter Discusses His New Book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age"
- "Review of "The Digital Doctor"" By Abigail Zuger, "The New York Times", 2015.
- "Why Health Care Tech is Still So Bad" By Robert M. Wachter, The New York Times, 2015.
- "Holding Doctors Accountable For Medical Errors" By Pauline Chen The New York Times, 2009.
- "The Emerging Role of “Hospitalists” in the American Health Care System" By Robert M. Wachter, MD and Lee Goldman, MD, 1996.
- "Balancing 'No Blame' with Accountability in Patient Safety" By Robert M. Wachter, MD and Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, 2009.
External links
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