10+ hour, 27+ min ago   (766+ words) Recently, while watching Influenced, a satirical film about wealthy influencers and socialites, I heard the words “Food Allergy Ball” as part of a skit. The audience was expected to laugh. I couldn’t. It wasn’t because I lack a sense of…...

14+ hour, 27+ min ago   (491+ words) After performing more than 600 IVF cycles a year for nearly two decades, I’ve noticed something that has little to do with embryology and everything to do with expectations. The couples who cope best with this process aren’t necessarily the ones…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1152+ words) When most people hear the words seasonal affective disorder, they picture winter. Dark mornings. Short days. Cold weather. Fatigue. Oversleeping. Wanting to stay under the covers. Only wanting to go out for donuts. As we talked, an important pattern began…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (353+ words) The committee had met six times. The quality data was clear. The care pathway was evidence-based. The physicians in the room nodded. Six months later, nothing had changed. Not because the initiative was wrong. Not because the physicians were resistant....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (80+ words) Granularity as a core computing metric Renting intelligence versus owning the stack The scale of ambition: beyond the wellness app An MBA graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Lawal writes on AI, neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and health care equity,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (662+ words) A patient called my office at 9 p.m. on a Tuesday. She had a UTI. She knew she had a UTI. She’d treated the same thing twice before that year and could probably have diagnosed it faster than a med student. What…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (259+ words) My story begins in improbability. I survived RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) in an era when infants didn’t. I survived a desegregation bus accident that nearly crushed my airway. I survived the loss of my father and the fracture of my…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (310+ words) When people ask me why I left health care, I tell them it was for personal reasons. I tell them that it was to support my daughter and her family. That was one reason, but there are others. So after…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (213+ words) Generative AI systems can create references to papers that do not exist and make them look real. In medicine, a fabricated or poorly verified reference is not simply a bibliographic error. It weakens the chain of evidence on which reviews,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (364+ words) Every ambient AI scribe demo ends the same way. The visit wraps, the note is already written, and you get an evening back. None show the part at the beginning where you must tell the patient a machine is listening,…...