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Why AI in medicine elevates humanity instead of replacing it

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December 13, 2025

When I trained in medicine, the learning path was predictable. Long nights of memorizing anatomy. Standing beside seasoned physicians in hospital hallways. Slowly absorbing the craft of diagnosis through repetition and proximity. It was an apprenticeship built on pattern recognition, intuition, and accumulated wisdom.

What I did not learn was how to practice medicine in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. That education came much later. It arrived quietly at …

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How an AI medical scribe saved my practice

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December 6, 2025

When I wrote my first novel last year, I grappled with the ethical implications of using a large language model to guide my writing process (one I have been carefully refining for decades). Prompt after prompt, my mind became inundated with the notions of how every query consumed a not insignificant amount of energy and the black box of the generated text’s origins. “Am I relying too heavily on this …

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Innovation in medicine: 6 strategies for docs

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November 21, 2025

Medicine thrives on structure. Protocols, guidelines, and standards safeguard patient outcomes and reduce error. Yet the same structure that preserves consistency can quietly suppress creativity.

For physicians who dream of improving systems, innovating within such rigid frameworks can feel like trying to work inside a box. But structure and creativity do not have to be opposites. Oftentimes, the struggle lies in how we spark creativity in a system built for safety.

The …

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AI in medical imaging: When algorithms block the view

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November 18, 2025

He spent his youth memorizing lungs. That was how he learned chest X-rays, not by chasing abnormalities, but by studying thousands of perfectly normal films until his eyes could sense when something was ever so slightly wrong. “If you don’t know normal,” he would tell residents, “you’ll never understand abnormal.”

He was a chest physician, not a radiologist, yet his skill with chest imaging became legendary. At Taipei Veterans General Hospital, …

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Physicians must lead the vetting of AI

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November 11, 2025

Walking out of the cath lab one night after taking care of a patient with an acute myocardial infarction, a thought crossed my mind. In cardiology, we would never deploy a new device without vetting it. Before a stent ever touches a coronary artery, it undergoes bench testing, animal trials, and human studies to prove safety and efficacy. This process typically takes years, and in some cases, decades. Data points …

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Why Medicare must embrace AI support

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November 10, 2025

America’s mental health system is failing its seniors, caught in a perfect storm of: a rapidly growing population, a severe shortage of geriatric psychiatrists, and a Medicare model buckling under the weight of chronic, costly conditions. For millions of older adults living with anxiety, depression, or isolation, the system offers little or no treatment; often, the nearest provider is hours away, and waitlists stretch for months. …

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Modernizing health care with AI and workflow

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November 10, 2025

As a physician, I know all too well what clinicians in the U.S. today are up against. We’re being asked to do a lot more with a lot less. We’re tasked with producing more complete and accurate clinical documentation, reviewing endless notes, coding our own charts, and improving patient flow, all while providing the best patient experience and ensuring quality scores are optimal. All in a day’s work, right?

Our hippocratic …

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How to adopt AI in health care responsibly

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November 7, 2025

To give you an idea of how rapidly AI adoption has occurred, I recently reviewed the minutes of a company leadership meeting from last year. The topic of AI was almost entirely absent, receiving only minimal discussion. Compare that activity to today, where we’ve developed dozens of applications that actively utilize some form of AI, and hold daily meetings where it is the sole topic of discussion.

If your organization’s experience …

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Is it time for the VA to embrace virtual care?

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November 6, 2025

Is it time for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to fully embrace virtual care?

The VA has long been one of America’s great health care innovators. From pioneering electronic health records to building one of the first truly integrated care systems, the VA has often been decades ahead of the private sector.

But today, the system is straining. Nearly 94 percent of VA facilities face physician shortages, and 79 …

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Systematic neglect of mental health

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November 3, 2025

For the third time in six weeks, a 34-year-old woman sat in an emergency room, desperate for help, and for the third time, the system failed to see her. It saw her dehydration, severe enough to require IV fluids. It saw her malnutrition, with electrolyte imbalances that required correction. It saw her vision problems, concerning enough for an ophthalmologic consultation. It saw everything except the person suffering. Each time, the …

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Ethical AI in mental health: 6 key lessons

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October 28, 2025

As a founder developing AI systems for mental health support, I have wrestled with a fundamental question: How do we use AI to expand access while maintaining patient-provider trust? Building an AI Mental Health Copilot has shown me that the ethical challenges are as complex as the technical ones, and far more consequential. The mental health crisis demands innovation. AI copilots offer scalable, always-available support to bridge care gaps caused …

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AI companions and loneliness

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October 26, 2025

Into this psychological wasteland, we’re now introducing AI companions as the solution. Meta’s personas, Character.AI’s virtual friends, and romantic chatbots; the market for artificial intimacy is exploding. The promise is seductive: connection without risk, companionship without effort, and validation on demand.

But here’s what these AI relationships actually do: They allow users to avoid the very challenges that build psychological resilience. Genuine relationships require vulnerability, the ability to tolerate conflict, and …

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The dangerous racial bias in dermatology AI

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October 21, 2025

The Bay Area has become the epicenter of artificial intelligence, home to renowned startups and labs racing to prove AI’s power to transform our daily lives.

Just three months ago, California released its own Frontier AI Policy Report, commissioned by Governor Gavin Newsom, which warned that without stronger oversight and transparency, AI models threaten equity and accountability, especially in health care. Nowhere is this danger more urgent than in dermatology.

A …

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Reinforcing trust in AI: a critical role for health tech leaders

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October 9, 2025

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to gain traction in health care, its potential to improve patient outcomes, streamline workflows and reduce human error is becoming increasingly evident. Many health care leaders are embracing AI as a core part of their digital transformation strategies. In fact, a recent study in Health Affairs, which analyzed data from the American Hospital Association, found that sixty-five percent of U.S. hospitals used predictive AI …

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The digital divide in rural health care

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September 30, 2025

Imagine your hospital’s entire IT operation grinding to a halt because of a snowstorm, cut fiber lines, or unstable internet connectivity. This is not a worst-case scenario for many rural health care providers; it is a regular reality. And it highlights just how fragile the digital infrastructure is in many parts of our country.

Across rural America, hospitals are losing physicians and fighting to stay open while serving communities …

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One doctor’s journey to making an AI study tool less corrosive to critical thinking

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September 30, 2025

At the risk of sounding out of the times, I think back to how simple education was back in the day: attend lectures, take notes, read books (gasp), do any relevant flashcards or question sets, and repeat. Indeed, this formula is a functional strategy for many prior generations of doctors. For my own medical journey, now fifteen years in as an otolaryngology resident, this simple strategy has worked well enough.

The …

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Is it time to embrace augmented empathy while using artificial intelligence in health care?

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September 30, 2025

Introduction: a double-edged disruptor

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly insinuated itself and is transforming nearly every corner of modern life. Health care is no exception. With the rise of advanced chatbots, symptom checkers, and health-focused algorithms, patients now have 24/7 access to vast medical knowledge at their fingertips in seconds. The excitement is understandable: AI can demystify medical “doctor-speak” or jargon, suggest possible diagnoses and treatment options, and empower patients to …

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AI in your health care: a double-edged digital disruptor

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September 26, 2025

Introduction: a double-edged disruptor

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly insinuated itself and is transforming nearly every corner of modern life. Health care is no exception. With the rise of advanced chatbots, symptom checkers, and health-focused algorithms, patients now have 24/7 access to vast medical knowledge at their fingertips in seconds. The excitement is understandable: AI can demystify medical “doctor-speak” or jargon, suggest possible diagnoses and treatment options, and empower patients to …

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Why the future of AI in medicine is patient-facing

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September 26, 2025

I love technology. I love the health care AI I use every week including Viz.ai and OpenEvidence and Glass Health. I am generally a tech optimist. And even as cries of overhype on artificial intelligence start wading into the public discourse, I truly believe that AI will as fundamentally alter society and health care as the internet or the mobile phone.

But, I am convinced the whole industry is doing AI …

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Digital mental health’s $20 billion blind spot

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September 25, 2025

As a founder in digital mental health, I’ve watched our industry celebrate reaching $8.34 billion in valuation while systematically failing 40 percent of the population. This isn’t just a moral failure, it’s a $20 billion market opportunity that’s being ignored because of cultural blindness. For physicians trying to refer diverse patients to digital mental health resources, the options are frustratingly inadequate. With the total U.S. behavioral health market valued …

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