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Charlotte Blease PhD
@crblease.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof Uppsala Uni Sweden
Digital Psychiatry @ BIDMC Harvard

Dr Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us & How AI Could Save Lives
(Yale, Sept '25) https://amazon.com/dp/0300247141
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Charlotte Blease PhD @crblease.bsky.social · Sep 9
✨ Today is publication day for Dr Bot! ✨
Here’s a taster
Dr Bot is written to be accessible and engaging.. bringing patients, AI + med together
amazon.com/dp/0300247141

💡📖
@yalebooks.bsky.social

#DrBot #BookLaunch #AIinHealthcare #FutureOfMedicine #HealthTech #PatientStories #MedicalEthics #AI
Reposted by Charlotte Blease PhD
bmj.com
Patients are increasingly disclosing information to artificial intelligence tools and seeking health advice from them.

Clinicians must adapt to these emerging patterns to protect patient safety and trust, writes @crblease.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
January 21, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Patients are disclosing sensitive information to AI tools—clinicians must adapt.
My latest @bmj.com opinion piece.
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www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Patients are disclosing sensitive information to AI tools—clinicians must adapt
Patients are already confiding sensitive information to artificial intelligence tools, often more freely than to clinicians. Recognising and responsibly integrating these emerging disclosure patterns ...
www.bmj.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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This week's Substack: an American AI Report You May Have Missed:
open.substack.com/pub/bleaseon...
This American AI Report Should Have Blown Up.
It Didn’t And That Was a Mistake.
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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🍇Heard on the grapevine that my recent essay for Aeon "Are doctors replaceable?" has been getting unusually steep engagement. In case you missed it:
📖 aeon.co/essays/who-s...
Who should decide the role of AI in the future of medicine? | Aeon Essays
Medical error kills hundreds of thousands yearly. If AI is sophisticated enough to help, doctors must not stand in the way
aeon.co
January 15, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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People Are Talking to AI About Suicide - Let's stop gaslighting them.
My latest Substack: open.substack.com/pub/bleaseon...
People Are Talking to AI About Suicide
Let's stop gaslighting them
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Happy Epiphany
Check out out my predictions for Dr Bot in the year ahead.
(I focus on mental health)...
open.substack.com/pub/bleaseon...
Five Predictions for Dr Bot in the Year Ahead
In 2026, I focus my forecasts on mental health and AI
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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📚🎯"In Dr. Bot...Blease offers a compelling vision of where AI in Medicine is going. I put this book in a league with Deep Medicine (2019), by Dr Eric Topol... rip-roaring yarn of a read. If you start on Friday, you'll be done before Sunday dinner"
🙏 Walter Robinson:
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Preventive Maintenance -- January 1, 2026
Happy New Year to all subscribers! I wish you great health, abundant happiness, deeper connections with family and friends, and accelerated career success in 2026. Given the holidays, we are in mainte...
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January 2, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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At the Start of the Year, I Made Some Predictions. Here’s How They Aged.
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At the Start of the Year, I Made Some Predictions. Here’s How They Aged.
An end-of-year audit of predictions with the author being held to account
open.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Merry Christmas from me and my festive friends.
Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and peaceful new year
December 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Who should decide the role of AI in the future of medicine? –Check out my latest essay in @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/who-s... edited by @nigelwarburton.bsky.social
Who should decide the role of AI in the future of medicine? | Aeon Essays
Medical error kills hundreds of thousands yearly. If AI is sophisticated enough to help, doctors must not stand in the way
aeon.co
December 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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“A bold, brilliant diagnosis of medicine’s blind spots, Dr Bot is the second opinion that medicine didn’t ask for, but desperately needs. It is sharp, savvy, and impossible to ignore.”

Review of Dr Bot by Prof Brendan Kelly, Trinity College Dublin
www.medicalindependent.ie/life/book-re...
A timely  – quietly radical –book on AI in medicine - Medical Independent
Charlotte Blease’s Dr Bot arrives at a critical juncture in the evolving conversation about medicine, technology, and...
www.medicalindependent.ie
December 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Blease PhD
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Are doctors irreplaceable? @aeon.co @crblease.bsky.social
aeon.co Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · Dec 22
If we are to think clearly about the question of AI in medicine, we must confront it from an outsider’s perspective, and consider whether new technologies could be part of a wider reckoning with what medicine is for and who it should serve
Who should decide the role of AI in the future of medicine? | Aeon Essays
Medical error kills hundreds of thousands yearly. If AI is sophisticated enough to help, doctors must not stand in the way
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December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
crblease.bsky.social
Interviewed by fellow philosopher Joe Humphreys in today's @irishtimes.com on the future of medicine, doctors, and Irish healthcare. Do check it out.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
#patientsuseAI #Ireland #medicine #DrBot
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Can AI Help to Fix Medical Records?
My latest Substack discusses some recent, intriguing findings

open.substack.com/pub/bleaseon...
Can AI Help to Fix Medical Records?
Are records are strewn with biases and errors, new research suggests AI can assist
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Blease PhD
bmj.com
NEW in The BMJ: key competencies for clinicians to navigate #AI, balancing clinical judgment with support for patient decision-making.

Part of our Series on #GenAI:

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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December 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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My friend Jonnie Rice is an Irish illustrator who has just launched his own website.. Do check out his designs, from Christmas cards to prints

www.jriceillustrations.co.uk
Home | J Rice Illustrations
www.jriceillustrations.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Happy count down to Black Friday! Dr B is doing well in the medical section of Amazon. Go and treat yourself or a loved one!
www.amazon.com/dp/0300247141
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Coverage of our 2025 UK GPs GenAI survey by Sky News news.sky.com/story/one-in...
One in four GPs using AI at work despite vast majority having no training, survey finds
Some 95% of the doctors who said they use generative AI in their work reported no professional training and 85% of them said their employer has not encouraged its use.
news.sky.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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📻 New interview on our study: 1 in 4 GPs now use AI for a range of clinical tasks.
Watch: lnkd.in/ePEQA49w
interview with Jo Crawford on Times Radio
LinkedIn
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November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Blease PhD
bmj.com
Charlotte Blease & co show how AI can expand patient access & autonomy, when the right safeguards are in place

www.bmj.com/content/391/...
#PatientSafety
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November 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Today in Digital Health **now 1 in 4 UK GPs** up from our widely publicised findings last year say they are using genAI for clinical tasks journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Read more here: bleaseondrbot.substack.com/p/dsadsa
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November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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✍ Busy pub day - two impt AI and healthcare articles out today that I want to draw your attention to:
In this one, the second in a series in the
@bmj_latest we discuss "How AI affects patient agency" - it's a patient-focused take on the advances we're seeing in genAI.
bmj.com/content/391/...
How generative AI affects patient agency
Generative AI is expanding access, understanding, and choice for patients but also creating new risks and ethical questions, argue Charlotte Blease and colleagues What once sounded like science fict...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Very kind review by a legend in patient care, e-Patient Dave
epatientdave.bsky.social e-Patient Dave @epatientdave.bsky.social · Nov 24
This book is superb. I have a LOT of thoughts about patient empowerment and restructuring the health system (to benefit both patients and docs), and I would have written this book, if I were able. But I don't have the skills of @crblease.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/patients...
To understand medicine's future you must read Dr. Bot
Charlotte Blease nails #PatientsUseAI in a beautifully composed work. Don't miss it.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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💡 Check out this podcast interview with Jonathan Fields who interviewed me about AI, patient-hood, and #DrBot for The Good Life Project.
➡️https://pod.link/goodlifeproject/episode/NjhmYTg5OWNkZWVlNzU0YTcyNDQ1MTBm
➡️ and here on YouTube:
youtu.be/ADiQZxlxvY4?...

#AI #Patients #Doctors #Ethics #DrBot
Future of Medicine: AI vs. Doctors, Who Wins? We ALL Do! [Ep. 2]
Learn how artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare, from diagnosis to patient care, in ways humans never could.
www.goodlifeproject.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Blease PhD
bmj.com
How is AI reshaping the clinician–patient relationship?

The BMJ’s new series examines what responsible, transparent #HealthAI use looks like in clinical practice.

@dafraile.bsky.social @crblease.bsky.social @sarariggare.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social

www.bmj.com/collections/...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM