Here’s a question: what medical schools are incorporating Roblox into their curriculum? Interested readers can get back to me, but in the meantime I’m guessing none. At best, very few. And instead of “medical schools” feel free to insert kind of “healthcare institutions/organization” that is interested in educating or training…

If you’ve been following artificial intelligence (AI) lately — and you should be — then you may have started thinking about how it’s going to change the world. In terms of its potential impact on society, it’s been compared to the introduction of the Internet, the invention of the printing…

I saw an expression the other day that I quite liked. I’m not sure who first said it, and there are several versions of it, but it goes something like this: let’s make better mistakes tomorrow. Boy howdy, if that’s not the perfect motto for healthcare, I don’t know what…

I’m paying close attention to strike by the Writers Guild Of America (WGA), which represents “Hollywood” writers. …

I’ve been thinking about writing about Bluesky ever since I heard about the Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative, and decided it is finally time, for two reasons. The first is that I’ve been seeing so many other people writing about it, so I’m getting FOMO. The second is that I checked…

I first became aware of Casey Quinlan in 2017, when she published an article in Tincture, which I was helping to edit. In it, she discussed how she’d had her medical history and advance directive tattooed on her chest, out of frustration with the lack of health information exchange in…

Chances are, you’ve read about AI lately. Maybe you’ve actually even tried DALL-E or ChatGPT, maybe even GPT-4. Perhaps you can use the term Large Language Model (LLM) with some degree of confidence. …

Last year I used some of Alfred North Whitehead’s pithy quotations to talk about healthcare, starting with the provocative “It is the business of the future to be dangerous.” …

I’ve been working in healthcare for over forty (!) years now, in one form or another, but it wasn’t until this past week that I heard of implementation science. Which, in a way, is sort of the problem healthcare has. Granted, I’m not a doctor or other clinician, but everyone…