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Editorial writing.
Short essays on hospital medicine, clinical AI, and teaching the body to patients in a way they can actually understand. Updated as the week allows. RSS feed.
May 9, 2026 · Under Review · UNDER REVIEW
Under clinical review
This essay is offline pending physician review.
May 8, 2026 · Clinical AI
Why I only adopt clinically validated tools
There is nothing courageous about waiting for evidence. It is the baseline of how medicine has always advanced.
May 5, 2026 · Clinical AI
The case against ambient AI scribes at the bedside
Ambient AI scribes are coming for the patient encounter, and the conversation about them has been almost entirely one-sided.
May 1, 2026 · Patient Education
AI as teaching, not transcription
If ambient scribes are the version of clinical AI I am most cautious about, patient-facing visualization is the version I am most excited about.