Ashten Duncan, MD
Health Technology
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…
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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How an AI medical scribe saved my practice
Conditions and Diseases
We saw the smile vanish from her face instantly. Our colleague, a zestful individual with a passion for obstetrical care, fell silent after our superiors met her ideas for improving her training experience with defensiveness and deflection. After the meeting,…
We saw the smile vanish from her face instantly. Our colleague, a zestful individual with a passion for obstetrical care, fell silent after our superiors met her ideas for improving her training experience with defensiveness and deflection. After the meeting, she confessed she was losing hope about getting robust enough exposure to delivering babies and managing laboring mothers prior to completing residency. For her, this was essential to her securing …
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Psychological safety for all: Why this phenomenon matters to everyone
Conditions and Diseases
The screen of my laptop brightened up as the next patient appeared in time for her telemedicine visit. The attending physician and I smiled and greeted this typically genial 73-year-old woman—let’s call her “Mariana”—as she forced a reciprocal grin. Mariana’s…
The screen of my laptop brightened up as the next patient appeared in time for her telemedicine visit. The attending physician and I smiled and greeted this typically genial 73-year-old woman—let’s call her “Mariana”—as she forced a reciprocal grin. Mariana’s husband passed away from pneumonia three months prior, shortly after recovering from COVID-19. She spoke about how difficult it was not having him in her life and how her home …
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Social connectedness, volunteerism, and the remedy for COVID fatigue
Health Policy
We are in the midst of an unequaled juncture in history, one in which we find ourselves primarily armed with the ability to distance ourselves physically from one another. In the United States, we have observed on multiple occasions over…
We are in the midst of an unequaled juncture in history, one in which we find ourselves primarily armed with the ability to distance ourselves physically from one another. In the United States, we have observed on multiple occasions over the past several weeks how some citizens have chosen to defy social distancing guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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What makes people defy precautions during a pandemic?
Health Technology
It has become more and more evident with time that the health care delivery system here in the United States is riddled with issues. One with many disagreements arising from the fact that there is no clear and universally acceptable…
It has become more and more evident with time that the health care delivery system here in the United States is riddled with issues. One with many disagreements arising from the fact that there is no clear and universally acceptable solution to our problems. In many ways, the system seems to step on its own feet — as the health care professionals working within it fight to make it work …
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How telemedicine will revolutionize primary care
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