On June 5, 2019 the Almanac, the home newspaper for the California communities of Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley and Woodside featured a cover story on Rick Novak and his novel Doctor Vita.
by Angela Swartz / Almanac
Dr. Rick Novak poses for a portrait at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, May 23. Photo by Magali Gauthier/The Almanac
Between his time in the operating room, teaching, and raising his three sons, Atherton resident Dr. Rick Novak has found time to write three novels.
Novak, an anesthesiologist at Stanford University Medical Center and the Waverley Surgery Center in Palo Alto, the novel “Doctor Vita,” a story about artificial intelligence in medicine (AIM) that goes awry.
It’s a science fiction novel that explores how technological breakthroughs like artificial intelligence and robots will affect medical care — and already have.
This is the link to the Almanac article.