A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future

「一本可讀性高、時常引人入勝的入門書，介紹正在改變臨床實踐的 AI 工具—無論好壞......至關重要、發人深省的讀物。」 — 科克斯評論（Kirkus）

本書作者是《數位醫師》（The Digital Doctor）的《紐約時報》暢銷書作家，他對醫療保健領域擁抱生成式人工智慧（generative artificial intelligence）的努力，進行了引人入勝、思路清晰且最終充滿希望的檢視。

在《巨大飛躍》（A Giant Leap）中，醫師兼思想領袖羅伯特．瓦赫特（Robert Wachter）在炒作和懷疑之間進行了導航，為人工智慧改變醫療保健的潛力提出了令人信服的論點。他主張，在一個因官僚壓力、成本飆升和臨床醫師倦怠而負荷過重的系統中，人工智慧不需要完美—它只需要更好。

瓦赫特憑藉廣泛的研究，以及對醫學、技術、政策和商業領域的一百多位先驅的採訪，展示了人工智慧如何已經進入醫院和診所，協助起草病歷筆記、回答病患問題、推薦治療方案、解讀影像並指導手術。他毫不畏懼地直面幻覺、偏見和錯誤資訊等風險，同時揭示了人工智慧現在如何在從診斷到同理心等領域，能夠與醫師匹敵，甚至有時超越醫師。

但這不僅僅是一個關於技術的故事。它關乎人類的選擇，這些選擇將決定人工智慧是成為醫療保健的救星，還是另一個傷害和挫敗感的來源。

《巨大飛躍》融合了臨床洞察力、生動的故事講述和新聞精確度，為醫療保健領導者、臨床醫師和病患提供了一份不可或缺的藍圖。它以充滿活力和及時的筆觸，記述了在這個令人驚歎的技術時代，人工智慧正如何改變「關懷」與「被關懷」的含義。

“An accessible, often fascinating primer on AI tools changing clinical practice—for better or worse.... 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.