In just the modest span of my career, the volume of medical data has exploded. Well intentioned folks in my line of work call this “bloat” and worry over cajoling humans to stem the tide. We never will. Fortunately, AI will save us from ourselves. “…it will be necessary to develop a more organized approach to the medical record…and a…
Month: September 2025
Who’s Afraid of Deskilling?
Many seasoned medical (and non-medical) hands are being wrung these days over dependence on AI sapping the clinical skills of trainees. It will, and that’s ok. But we do have a much bigger problem of medical education on our hands. The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with…
Clogs to Clogs
My hospital needed some utility upgrades. The final step was repaving the parking lot. So yesterday, going from my office to the hospital ward, I passed giant asphalt paving trucks with their crew scurrying among them. As is typical where we live, they spoke in Mexican Spanish. What struck me was how old they looked, must have been pushing 60…