Charlotte Blease PhD

The Forgotten Famine — Hearts of Down

Our short film about the Great Hunger in Newtownards.

There are Bully’s Acres all over Ireland – mass graves, where victims of an Gorta Mór and harsh workhouse regimes lie buried.

‘The Forgotten Famine’ is about one of them, in a quiet corner of County Down…

www.heartsofdown.org/work/the-for...

Really enjoyed this podcast discussion with Torie Robinson on GenAI tools in healthcare +the hypocrisy around them.
See below
🎬 YouTube lnkd.in/eMPq_JvR
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#PatientCare #GenerativeAI #chatgpt #healthcare #epilepsy

Thanks Ian for coming out in the rain to join it/ Hope you enjoy the book

An artificial dichotomy The value of doctors is up for debate in some quarters. The UK has seen backlash about role replacement by physician assistants and UK resident doctor strikes over pay and training posts. Meanwhile, t...

Scalpel meets bot: today I got a review of "Dr Bot" in one of the world's oldest medical journals @thelancet.com. Truly appreciate the attention it is getting. The title is a bit mischievous but it's Friday so I will let it pass.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Is it safe to use AI chatbots for therapy? Little is still known about the relationship between humans, therapy, and AI chatbots, yet these tools are being used by some people seeking quick ...

📻I discussed AI Chatbots for therapy on @euronews.com with Tom Van Daele

Do check it out:
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#AI #Therapy #Psychotherapy #MentalHealthMatters

Accountability on St Brigid's Day: Doctors and Machines St Brigid’s Day, which Ireland marks each February 1st, as a festival of light and renewal, celebrates the return of brightness after winter’s darkness.

Accountability on St Brigid's Day: Doctors and Machines My latest Substack
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AI Use and Depression An Interesting Signal But Not Yet a Verdict

My latest Substack on AI Use and Depression, discussing the latest findings in a worrying JAMA Open study.
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Great discussion last night at the British Library’s AI series on “Will AI Make Us Healthier?” 🎙️💡
The event was hosted by the wonderful Timandra Harkness with a brilliant panel including Dr Nicola Byrne, Prof Niels Peek, + Dr Shahreen Ahmad. Glad to be part of the line-up.
Available soon on YouTube

Book Review: Dr Bot ‘Dr Bot: Why Doctors Fail Us - and How AI Could Save Lives’ by Charlotte Blease (2025)

What happens when medicine meets machines?
AI Book Review podcast:
🎙️ Meeting Dr Bot – In Conversation with Charlotte Blease
📅 4 February | 🕕 6pm GMT / 1pm EST

Join us!

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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
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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 ...

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/...

This American AI Report Should Have Blown Up. It Didn’t And That Was a Mistake.

This week's Substack: an American AI Report You May Have Missed:
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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:
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People Are Talking to AI About Suicide Let's stop gaslighting them

People Are Talking to AI About Suicide - Let's stop gaslighting them.
My latest Substack: 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

Happy Epiphany
Check out out my predictions for Dr Bot in the year ahead.
(I focus on mental health)...
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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...

📚🎯"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:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/preven...

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

At the Start of the Year, I Made Some Predictions. Here’s How They Aged.
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Merry Christmas from me and my festive friends.
Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and peaceful new year

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

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...

“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...

Are doctors irreplaceable? @aeon.co @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

Can AI Help to Fix Medical Records? Are records are strewn with biases and errors, new research suggests AI can assist

Can AI Help to Fix Medical Records?
My latest Substack discusses some recent, intriguing findings

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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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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

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

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.

Coverage of our 2025 UK GPs GenAI survey by Sky News news.sky.com/story/one-in...

📻 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

AI

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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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