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Bobby Dubois is a physician-scientist, podcaster, and multiple-time Ironman triathlete whose career has centered on using scientific evidence to understand what works and what does not in helping patients, and then doing everything in his power to move them down a path toward better health. In recent years he has turned his attention toward guiding others to live longer and with renewed energy as they age, work he shares on his website.

He is board-certified in internal medicine, received his MD from Johns Hopkins, his PhD in health policy from the RAND Corporation, and his undergraduate degree from Harvard College. He worked with managed care for a decade, the electronic health records industry for seven years, and the pharmaceutical industry for ten years, and he guided a D.C.-based think tank.

Dubois has published roughly 180 peer-reviewed articles spanning quality of care measurement, the appropriateness of medical and surgical procedures, comparative effectiveness research, and the value of health care spending, with work appearing in JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, and Value in Health. His podcast, Live Long and Well With Dr. Bobby, focuses on evidence and health and is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. He shares updates on Instagram.

How to tell which abnormal test results actually matter

Bobby Dubois, MD, PhD
Physician
September 5, 2026

You open your health portal before bed, mostly out of habit, and there it is: a number in red. Or your doctor mentions, almost in passing, that your cholesterol has crept up and your blood sugar is “borderline.” Nothing hurts. You feel the same as last week. But something has shifted, and you know it. You’ve become a person with a problem.

I want to make the case that a red …

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How to tell which abnormal test results actually matter

Why using AI to write articles needs an audit trail

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August 5, 2026

Not long ago, I wrote a Sensible Medicine article about AI called “I invented a headache to test AI and here is what I found.” I concluded that for diagnosing my headache (and a few other conditions), AI got things wrong quite often. When given full history of my problem, it did well, but a typical patient doesn’t know the pertinent negatives and positives to provide the GPT. False-positive …

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