Reflections on Why I Stopped Practicing Medicine, For Now I’ve done my talk therapy via laptop-propped-up-on-shoebox ever since COVID. It wasn’t long ago — February 2025, perhaps? — that my therapist casually asked me a seemingly simple, therapy-ish question: What gives your life meaning? Before goi

Graham Walker, Emergency physician — AI can surface every rare possibility a doctor once considered and dismissed. The hard part for patients won't be finding information—it'll be knowing when low risk is low enough.

We’ve been ignoring the lesson for twenty years. Now the stakes are higher.The Future of Clinical Decision Support is a new series from MDCalc exploring how AI, evidence, and physician judgment are reshaping medicine. These essays are intended to spark discussion about where technology is taking clinical decision support – and where physicians feel it should go. Blaring “Mary Had a Little Lamb” every 4–19 minutes from 2am to 4am in a fluorescent-lit ER has only two outcomes: insanity, or alert f

Soooo, ha, um, I have a secret I’ve been keeping from you: I’m joining MDCalc full-time as its Head of AI. I wish I could say that I rage-quit medicine or that I’ve got some incredibly juicy story to tell, but alas.

Trust is the rocket fuel, not the afterthoughtThe Future of Clinical Decision Support is a new series from MDCalc exploring how AI, evidence, and physician judgment are reshaping medicine. These essays are intended to spark discussion about where technology is taking clinical decision support – and where physicians feel it should go. Every powerful medical technology needed its trust layer before it could scale. I don't care if you're talking about CT scans, statins, or glucometers. You don't ge

The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

In a recent podcast appearance, the billionaire former member of “Shark Tank” ripped into insurance companies and defended physicians.

The many doctors who are just now realizing that misinformation wasn't "COVID hysteria nonsense" have a lot of catching up to do to understand how the forces they've legitimized the led to this moment

Dont know how Alabama employers can keep carrying the water of Big PBMs and Insurers after this. Big employers in Alabama are spending more than anyone on…

In light of RFK Jr.’s confirmation, it’s time for doctors to ask why we’ve lost the trust of the public — and what we can do to gain it back.