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Artificial Intelligence Featured

Building the Physician's Knowledge Flywheel

Why the vault gets exponentially more valuable the more you use it. The long-game thesis: this is the clinical infrastructure that vendors cannot build.

· 10 min read
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Physician using a command-driven clinical reasoning interface across dual monitors with case comparison and SOAP structure
Clinical + Code Featured

The Thinking Partner Commands Every Physician Should Build

Slash commands that replace the morning literature review. /challenge, /emerge, /connect, /close-clinic, /graduate: clinical reasoning augmentation, not automation.

· 11 min read
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Physician-builder at a laptop with a local clinical knowledge graph, binders, stethoscope, and private local server
Technology Featured

The Physician's Stack: Obsidian + Claude Code + Local LLM

How to build a clinical knowledge vault without sending patient data to anyone's server. The two-vaults architecture, ingestion workflows, and the HIPAA-first policy.

· 12 min read
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Physician workstation showing clinical evidence synthesis in a dark knowledge vault interface beside medical references
Artificial Intelligence Featured

What Karpathy Actually Built (and Why It Matters for Medicine)

The compilation analogy, explained for clinicians. How LLM Wiki compiles clinical knowledge into synthesized entity pages instead of re-retrieving chunks on every query.

· 9 min read
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Physician seated in a clinical office with a circular second-brain knowledge vault of case notes, guidelines, literature, protocols, and insights
Artificial Intelligence Featured

The Physician's Second Brain: A 5-Post Series

A complete guide to building an LLM-powered clinical knowledge vault. Why existing PKM failed physicians, how to build one that works, and why this is the infrastructure layer physicians must own.

· 3 min read
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Physician overwhelmed by unread medical PDFs, journal articles, guidelines, treatment protocols, and abandoned digital notes
Artificial Intelligence Featured

The PKM System That Was Never Built for You

Why every personal knowledge management app failed physicians specifically, and why Karpathy's April 2026 LLM Wiki changes everything.

· 9 min read
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AI in Medicine Featured

The Map Has Blind Spots

Move 37 was not a parlor trick. It was a warning. Physician-developers need to be ready for the moment AI starts finding medically important patterns our inherited maps never taught us to see.

· 8 min read
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Physician-developer at a night workstation reviewing a clinical note workflow, code, and model evaluation dashboards
Clinical + Code Featured

AI Just Outperformed Physicians at Clinical Writing. This Should Not Surprise You.

HealthBench Professional shows AI has already crossed the threshold in clinical writing and documentation. The real lesson is not replacement. It is that physician-developers need to build the harness.

· 8 min read
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A lone silhouette stands before a towering AI medical dashboard glowing cyan, while a warm doctor's office with a stethoscope waits through an open door behind him
AI in Medicine Featured

When AI Told a Dying Man What He Wanted to Hear

Joe Riley trusted AI over his oncologist and died of a treatable cancer. His tragedy wasn't naivety — it was earned distrust, amplified by a machine that had no way to know the difference.

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Physician-developer at a dark workstation with fragmented clinical PDFs on the left monitor and clean structured Markdown output on the right, a cracked digital wall separating the two
Artificial Intelligence

The PDF Wall: Why Your Clinical RAG Keeps Hallucinating

Your clinical RAG system is not hallucinating because the model is bad. It is hallucinating because your document pipeline is broken. Here is what clinical PDF parsing actually requires, and why Docling is the fix.

· 11 min read
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A clinical software project moving from a local laptop to live screens across browser and phone
Physician Development

Deployment: When Your Code Becomes Clinical Reality

An app on your laptop helps no one. Deployment is the step where physician-developer work finally becomes available to patients, colleagues, and clinics.

· 14 min read
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Connected patient record schemas and application code layered across a physician-developer workspace
Physician Development

Postgres and Prisma: Where the Data Actually Lives

Clinical software becomes real when it remembers. This is the database layer that turns a one-off calculator into a longitudinal tool.

· 13 min read
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A clinical web interface transforming from a plain form into a polished patient-facing design
Physician Development

Tailwind CSS: Design Without Asking a Designer

Patients do not trust ugly calculators. Tailwind helps physician-developers build interfaces that feel clean, credible, and ready to use.

· 11 min read
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A fast clinical content site displayed across screens with an architecture-focused web development workspace
Physician Development

Astro: Building Fast, Clinical-Grade Websites Without the Bloat

Physician-developer projects are usually content-first. Astro fits that shape by shipping less JavaScript, faster pages, and cleaner performance by default.

· 14 min read
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Physician Development

MDX: Where Writing Meets Code

Most physician writing dies in static documents. MDX turns clinical education into living pages that can explain, calculate, and update in one file.

· 10 min read
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AI in Medicine

AI-Assisted Coding: Your Second Pair of Hands

Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot do not replace judgment. They compress the feedback loop for physician-developers who still read every line before they ship.

· 13 min read
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A physician reviewing de-identified clinical data visualizations beside a Python coding workspace
Physician Development

Python: The Language of Clinical Data

JavaScript runs in the browser. Python runs behind the workflow, where lab values, CSV exports, data cleaning, and clinical models actually live.

· 12 min read
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A code editor showing structured clinical data and validation cues in a TypeScript workflow
Physician Development

TypeScript: Because a Misplaced Decimal Can Hurt a Patient

Clinical software cannot afford vague inputs. TypeScript gives physician-developers safer contracts, clearer data shapes, and fewer silent failures.

· 11 min read
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Physician Development

JavaScript: The Language Your Patients Already Run

Every patient portal, tablet consent form, and browser-based clinical tool already runs JavaScript. This is where physician-developers start changing what medicine feels like on a screen.

· 10 min read
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Physician Development Featured

The Physician-Developer's Stack: Nine Tools. One Doctor. A Workflow That Actually Ships.

A practical 10-part Doctors Who Code series for physicians who want to build and ship clinical tools with the modern web stack, from JavaScript to deployment.

· 6 min read
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Clinical + Code Featured

Deep Work for Physicians: Protecting the Cognitive Core of Medicine

Deep work is not a productivity hack for doctors. It is a clinical safety issue, a training issue, and a systems design issue. Physicians need to protect deep thinking and automate the shallows.

· 9 min read
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A physician calmly reviewing paperwork at a desk while dozens of rocket-powered AI robots and floating digital documents crowd the room around him
Clinical AI Featured

The Human Bottleneck: Why Medicine's Agentic Future Is Waiting on Us

AI agents are 50x faster than humans, but medicine only captures a fraction of that speed. The real bottleneck in agentic AI is not the technology — it is human capacity, clinical oversight, and workflows built for the wrong consumer. A physician-developer's perspective.

· 7 min read
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Physician-developer at a workstation with terminal output and a clinical note glowing on dual monitors, GPU server on the desk, dark clinical office at night
Infrastructure Imperative Featured

The Local Advantage: Why Physician-Developers Should Build on Local LLMs Instead of Consumer AI

Consumer AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude are useful. But a physician-developer who deploys a locally fine-tuned model on controlled infrastructure has something more powerful: a clinical tool that learns your practice, respects your data, and costs less at scale.

· 12 min read
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Physician-developer reviewing a clinical workflow while pre-visit summary, ambient capture, draft note, verification, coding support, and handoff steps appear around him
Clinical + Code Featured

Clinical Documentation Automation Should Remove Friction, Not Replace the Doctor

Documentation automation is not a typing solution. It is a workflow design problem. For physicians and physician-developers, the real goal is protecting clinical judgment from administrative drag.

· 8 min read
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Physician-builder reviewing a PGIS recipe library on a laptop while sketching the system architecture beside a plated meal
Clinical + Code Featured

I Built PGIS Recipes Because Food Systems Need Architecture

PGIS Recipes started as a stack of Marp slide decks. I turned it into a GitHub Pages library because nutrition guidance only compounds when the delivery system is structured, durable, and easy to revisit.

· 6 min read
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Physician in white coat with ID badge at a desk late at night, laptop showing a Python code editor alongside printed clinical notes
Technology

Why Doctors Should Learn to Code

Not to become programmers. To become the kind of physician who can close the gap between a clinical insight and a working solution.

· 4 min read
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Clinical + Code Featured

Doctors Who Code: Build Systems, Not Just Models

A TEDx pitch says physicians should build AI. I agree. But the work that matters is governance, validation, and delivery, not one-afternoon demos.

· 8 min read
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Technology Featured

Inbox to Insight: Building the DoctorsWhoCode Engine

Physicians do not have an information problem. We have a conversion problem. Inside the Telegram-driven research engine I built to turn links, papers, transcripts, and videos into drafts, PDFs, and durable editorial records.

· 10 min read
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Technology Featured

Doctors Who Code: From GitHub to Medical AI

A practical path for physicians who want to move from GitHub basics to building real medical AI projects.

· 4 min read
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AI in Medicine

Your First Medical AI Project on GitHub: How to Choose One You Will Actually Finish

Most physician-developers never ship their first AI project. The problem is not skill. It is scope. Here is a framework for choosing a project that lands.

· 8 min read
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A GitHub search results page filtered to medical AI repositories, showing stars, forks, and last commit dates
AI in Medicine

Navigating Medical AI on GitHub: What Is Worth Your Time

There are thousands of medical AI repositories on GitHub. Most are abandoned, half-built, or unreproducible. Here is how to find the ones that actually work.

· 7 min read
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AI in Medicine

JSON for Physicians: The Structured Data Your Clinical AI Actually Needs

A physician's guide to JSON, FHIR JSON, and structured clinical data for APIs, interoperability, and medical AI.

· 8 min read
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Three browser windows showing simple clinical utility pages: a blood pressure algorithm, a patient counseling checklist, and a kick count explainer
Physician Development

Three GitHub Projects Physicians Can Actually Finish

Most physician-developer projects fail not because the ideas are bad but because the first build is too large. Here are three that are sized to finish.

· 7 min read
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Physician Development

Your First Week on GitHub as a Physician: A Practical Starter Plan

Not a tutorial on becoming a developer. A seven-day plan for a busy physician to go from zero to a real project in a repository they will actually return to.

· 7 min read
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Physician Development

GitHub for Physicians: Why Version Control Changes How You Build

Most physician-developers lose code the same way: no backups, no history, no way to recover. Here is why version control matters.

· 6 min read
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Physician Development

Stop Lurking: Why Physicians Should Start GitHub Before They Feel Ready

Most physicians assume GitHub is for real developers. That assumption is costing medicine. Here is why the barrier is not skill, and what to do instead.

· 6 min read
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Physician reviewing faxed referral pages beside a digital referral dashboard with ultrasound images
AI in Medicine Featured

The Referral System Is Broken for the Same Reason the Triage Line Is Broken

Nobody lost your fax. The system was designed to lose it. Referral failures are not clerical accidents. They are the predictable result of clinical infrastructure built for a different era.

· 12 min read
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AI in Medicine

When Medical Algorithms Code Racism Into Patient Care

Race-based clinical algorithms in kidney care and obstetrics did not just reflect bias. They operationalized it. Physicians now have a responsibility to challenge the software, logic, and architecture that turn racial fiction into patient harm.

· 8 min read
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Technology Featured

I Built InboxDetox in Two Evenings — This Is What Disposable Software Looks Like

InboxDetox is an AI-powered email unsubscribe manager built in two evenings and deployed to Railway. It is on GitHub. Take it.

· 5 min read
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Physician at a desk at night reviewing telehealth billing codes on dual monitors
Clinical Informatics

Demystifying Digital Medicine Coding -- A Physician-Developer's Guide to Sustainable Telehealth Workflows

A practical breakdown of 2025 CPT telehealth codes, RPM billing thresholds, and the workflow engineering required to make digital medicine financially sustainable.

· 8 min read
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AI in Medicine Featured

Your Patients Are Already Using ChatGPT to Decide Whether to Call You

They are not asking it for fun. They are asking it because the triage line puts them on hold for 45 minutes. The threat is not the technology. The threat is the system that made the technology necessary.

· 10 min read
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AI in Medicine

The EHR Vendor Wants You to Stay a Consultant

Physician passivity in health tech is not an accident. It is a business model. Understanding the structural incentives is the first step to building outside of them.

· 6 min read
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Clinical + Code

Logs Before Intelligence: Why Data Discipline Must Precede AI Insight

Before you build any AI feature, you must first build the log. The principle every physician-developer needs to internalize before writing a single line of intelligence code.

· 8 min read
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Physician Development

Your First Build Does Not Have to Save Lives

Every physician who codes started somewhere that had nothing to do with clinical AI. The first build is about identity formation, not impact. Here is why that distinction matters, and where to actually start.

· 6 min read
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Clinical + Code

The Limits of Viability: What Patients Find Before They Find You

When families face periviability, they search before they call. What they find shapes everything. Here is why physician-developers have a responsibility to build better.

· 7 min read
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AI in Medicine

When the Algorithm Fails, Who Answers for It?

Every physician using an AI tool has heard the liability question. Most of us answer it wrong. The real answer is not about insurance. It is about who was in the room when the tool was designed.

· 6 min read
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AI in Medicine Featured

Augmented Intelligence Is a Physician Problem. That Makes It a Physician-Developer Opportunity.

The AMA opened the door. Physicians must decide what to do with it. The survey data is not a comfort. It's a challenge. Here's what physician-developers do next.

· 9 min read
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AI in Medicine Featured

Skill Loss Is the Wrong Fear. Here's the Right One.

88% of physicians fear AI will erode their clinical instincts. That fear is real but misdirected. The greater risk is intellectual dependency on systems we didn't build and cannot interrogate.

· 8 min read
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Physician at dual-monitor workstation with EHR on one screen and code on the other
AI in Medicine Featured

The AMA Is Right About Augmented Intelligence — They're Wrong About Who Should Build It

The AMA's 2026 survey shows 81% of physicians now use AI in practice. But read the fine print. Physicians want a seat at the table. The best way to earn that seat is to be the person who wrote the code.

· 9 min read
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Terminal window showing Astro build output alongside a stethoscope
Technology Featured

I Ditched Headless WordPress for Astro — Here's Why a Physician-Developer Should Too

After spending a day fighting a WordPress plugin that wouldn't respect a domain change, I rebuilt DoctorsWhoCode.blog from scratch with Astro and MDX. The migration took one afternoon. The clarity was immediate.

· 8 min read
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A split-screen image showing an ICU monitor with glucose waveforms and a marathon runner at dawn, bridged by a line of glowing data.
Pillar Post Featured

From the ICU to the Marathon Course: What AI-Driven Glycemic Control Teaches Us About Athletic Performance

A physician-developer explores the powerful parallels between AI-driven glycemic control in the ICU and metabolic management for endurance athletes with Type 2 diabetes, introducing the Performance Glycemic Intelligence System (PGIS) as a real-world n-of-1 framework.

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A physician reviews his HRV trend chart and PGIS Breathe app at dawn, Garmin watch on his wrist, running shoes in the background.
Physician Development Featured

I Didn't Download an App. I Described My Problem to an AI and It Built One for Me.

A Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist describes how his personal AI health system identified low HRV, recommended breathing exercises, and prompted him to build a custom evidence-based breathing app in a single afternoon. A case study in disposable software, physician agency, and the future of personal health technology.

· 9 min read
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Blogging

The Protocol-to-Website Industrial Complex:

By Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG | Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist & Medical Director, Atlanta Perinatal Associates

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Blogging

PGIS — Performance Glycemic Intelligence System

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Physician Development Featured

How I Built FGRManager: A Physician-Developer's Blueprint for Turning Clinical Protocols into Bedside Tools

It was a Tuesday evening consult. A doctor called with a patient at 31 weeks small for gestational age, elevated umbilical artery resistance, and a wo...

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PGIS Performance Glycemic Intelligence System infographic
Technology

From Patient Data to Open Source: Why I Built the Performance Glycemic Intelligence System (PGIS)

As a physician-developer and a 60-year-old endurance athlete living with Type 2 diabetes for over two decades, I have navigated a unique intersection of...
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Technology

The Anatomy of a Real-Time Clinical Presentation: From Clinical Encounter to Open-Source Slides in Minutes

A few days ago, a consult reminded me why I started this blog . A colleague mentioned a new patient with a complex presentation of placenta accreta spec...
Technology

From Stethoscopes to Transformers: A Doctor's Deep Dive into "Attention is All You Need"

'The contents of this file is everything algorithmically needed to train a GPT. Everything else is just efficiency.'
Blogging

From Misinformation to Implementation: Why Modern Medicine Needs a Guideline-to-App Industrial Complex

Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist, Medical Director at Atlanta Perinatal Associates, Founder of CodeCraftMD

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Technology

Post-Mortem: Why I’m Stepping Back from My OpenClaw Experiment

In my last post, I shared my journey into building an OpenClaw agent to gain deeper visibility into the development process. As someone fascinated by th...
Technology

Physician-Developers vs. Viral Misinformation

A mother announces she will refuse vitamin K for her newborn. Not because of documented allergy. Not because of carefully researched religious exemption...
Blogging

I Built an OpenClaw Agent to Understand What Developers Are Actually Doing (Not Because I Needed One)

Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist | Founder, CodeCraftMD | Atlanta Perinatal Associates

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Healthcare Technology

Part 1: The $50 Billion Bait-and-Switch

Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist & Founder, CodeCraftMD

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Healthcare Technology

Part 2: What We Should Actually Build

Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist & Founder, CodeCraftMD

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Technology

From Walled Gardens to Living Evidence: Why Evidence-Based Medicine Is Being Rewritten by Compute

The history of medicine is, at its core, a history of how we manage information. For decades, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) has been our North Stara ri...
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Healthcare Technology

How I Used Code (and AI) to Fix One of Healthcare’s Most Painful Bottlenecks: Prior Authorizations

Specifically, the Prior Authorization (PA).

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Physician Development

The Era of the Clinical Scratchpad: Why Every Doctor Should Build "Disposable" Software

For the past two decades, medical software has been synonymous with monolithic platformsEpic, Cerner, and their ilkmassive systems designed to serve e...

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Technology

Doctors Who Code Blog Post

I just did something that would have been unthinkable five years ago: I cancelled my UpToDate subscription.
Blogging

Why ChatGPT and LLMs Are Professional Tools, Not Shortcuts: Drawing the Line That Actually Matters

I've noticed something interesting in physician circles lately: there's significant hand-wringing about whether using ChatGPT or other LLMs constitutes ...

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Healthcare Technology

PGIS: When Medicine, Endurance, and Code Collide — Looking for Collaborators

I'm a maternalfetal medicine physician managing complex, high-risk pregnancies. I have long-standing type 2 diabetes. And right now, I'm training for m...

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Technology Featured

Why Most Physician-Built AI Tools Will Fail (And How to Build the Ones That Won't)

Medical Director, Atlanta Perinatal Associates | Founder, CodeCraftMD

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Blogging

Building PGIS: A Vibe-Coded Performance Glycemic Intelligence System

Why Im tracking blood sugar like a developer and training like an athlete
Blogging

Why I'm Bullish on Doctors Who Code: In Agreement with Robert Wachter

By Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije, MD | January 19, 2026

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Healthcare Technology

CodeCraftMD on Hiatus, Not Abandoned: What Happens After the Weekend Prototype

It was 11:47 PM on a Saturday night, and I was staring at my EMR screen trying to remember whether 'threatened abortion' was O20.0 or O03.4. I had just ...

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Technology

Vibe Coding for Clinicians: How I Built a Medical App in One Weekend

At 3:47 AM on a Tuesday, I was manually transcribing my seventh high-risk OB consultation of the day into our EMR. The patient had a complex fetal cardi...
Technology

A Weekend Project for Clinicians: Building an HTML Slide Repository for Maternal–Fetal Medicine

Most MaternalFetal Medicine (MFM) physicians accumulate years of teaching materialPowerPoint decks, PDFs, screenshots, and handouts scattered across l...
Blogging

Stop Searching "How to Code Like a Software Engineer": A New Path for Physician-Developers

Medical Director, Atlanta Perinatal Associates | Creator of CodeCraftMD & PreEclampsiaWatch

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Technology

How Doctors Learn to Code in 2026: Why the New Path Beats Tutorials, Bootcamps, and YouTube Overload

A manifesto for physicians who want to build software, solve clinical problems, and actually ship products.

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Physician looking frustrated at AI-generated clinical documentation on a computer screen
Healthcare Technology

AI Scribes Are Failing Doctors—Here's the Brutal Truth the NEJM Won't Say Out Loud

By Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije, MFM Specialist & Founder of CodeCraftMD

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Technology

The Disappearing Note: How Automation Is Rewriting Clinical Documentation

By Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije | MaternalFetal Medicine

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Technology

The Bot Manager Fallacy in Healthcare

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Blogging

The Future of Clinical Documentation: A Practical AI Tech Stack for Physicians Who Code

> Keywords: AI clinical documentation, ambient transcription, EvidenceMD, CodeCraftMD, physician automation, clinical workflow, medical billing automati...

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Blogging

The Algorithm Said Yes. The Patient's Eyes Said No.

When algorithms and clinical intuition clash, who do you trust? A physician-programmer shares the moment data pointed one wayand instinct saved a life....

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Blogging

What Should Be the Response for "Doctors Who Code" and Humanity’s Next Medical Exam

In their NEJM AI editorial, Gallifant and Bitterman remind us that only 40% of a physicians shift is spent in direct patient contact. The rest the in...

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Blogging

Voice, Vision, and the Doctor in the Loop

> At the highest level of abstraction are visual and audio interfaces the demarcation between technical and non-technical professionals is breaking do...

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Blogging

🧠 From Machine Code to Medical Code

> Each generation begins not from zero, but from the highest abstraction level achieved by the previous one. Sean McClure, Discovered Not Designed

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Technology

The Bridge Builder’s Mind: Progress by Abstraction

Doctors Who Code: Progress through Abstraction Series, Part 1 The integration of programming into medical practice is transforming the way healthcare pr...

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Blogging

🧩 Progress by Abstraction: How Doctors Build the Future of Thought

> Human progress isnt the result of smarter people its the result of smarter layers.

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Blogging

📊 Scalars and Vectors: The Building Blocks of Machine Learning in Medicine

When clinicians hear about artificial intelligence, we often jump straight to buzzwords like deep learning or neural networks. But behind every powe...

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Technology

Data-Driven Pregnancies: Continuous Glucose Monitoring and the Revolution in Diabetes Care

For medical professionals exploring how technology can transform patient outcomes, the management of diabetes in pregnancy (DIP)whether Type 1 Diabetes...
Blogging

What Is Machine Learning?

Ive recently started reading Why Machines Learn by Anil Ananthaswamy, a book that traces the elegant mathematics behind modern artificial intelligence....

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Technology

When Fear Clouds the Future: Why AI in Healthcare Deserves Nuance, Not Alarm Bells

Thats the headline that sticks dramatic, chilling, and meant to slam the brakes on any optimism about AI in medicine. But heres the truth: fear-driv...
Technology

Monte Carlo Simulations in Maternal-Fetal Medicine: A Computational Approach to Clinical Uncertainty

Transforming clinical variability into actionable probabilities for evidence-based maternal-fetal care
Technology

The Algorithm and the Bedside: A Narrative Exploration of Artificial Intelligence in Maternal-Fetal Medicine

The fluorescent lights in the labor and delivery unit hummed softly as Dr. Adaeze Okafor approached her first patient of the day. For thirty years, she ...
Technology

The PERFORM Study: What Happens When AI and OB-GYN Residents Go Head-to-Head?

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword in healthcareit is becoming a real, measurable force in medical education and clinical decision-ma...
Technology

The Marvelous Mind of Johnny von Neumann

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Technology

📈 From Fingersticks to the Future: How CGM is Transforming Gestational Diabetes Care

At Atlanta Perinatal Associates, weve taken that message to heartand to code.
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Transforming Patient Care with AI: How to Use Ambient Scribe Technology and ChatGPT in Your Medical Practice

Imagine transforming your patient consultations into polished, informative presentations with minimal effort. In the fast-paced world of medicine, effic...

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Revolutionizing Maternal Care: Integrating Fetal Kick Counters with EMR Alerts - A Proposal

A response to 'Connecting with Fetus: The Use of App-Based Fetal Movement Counting and Experiences During Pregnancy and Birth' (2025)

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A Look into the Future: How AI and Eye Scans Could Save Mothers' Lives

Imagine walking into a clinic for a routine prenatal check-up. Instead of just the usual measurements, you have a simple photograph taken of the back of...

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AI-Powered Maternal Health: How Advanced Technology Can Reduce Preeclampsia Complications

Every 7 minutes, a woman dies from complications of pregnancy and childbirth-related hypertensive disorders. Preeclampsia alone affects 5-8% of all preg...

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The Scalpel and the Algorithm – A New Era for Physicians

In today's data-driven healthcare landscape, physicians who understand both medicine and code are becoming the new pioneers of patient care. Imagine dia...

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The Dangerous Limitations of Static AI in Maternal Care: When Preeclampsia Prediction Models Fail Over Time

Imagine being able to predict which pregnant patients are on the brink of severe complications with data-backed precision. That's the holy grail in mate...

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How AI Can Uncover Hidden Cardiovascular Risks in Pregnancy: A Case for Smarter Screening

An analysis of: Gestational Blood Pressure Trajectories and 5-Year Postpartum Hypertension Risk in the MADRES Study
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The Physician-Developer's FHIR Playbook: How to Pull Real Clinical Data from Epic Using Python

A step-by-step tutorial for physician-developers on authenticating with the Epic FHIR sandbox, making your first API call in Python, and building toward a SMART on FHIR clinical app -- no enterprise contract required.

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Predicting Preeclampsia Risk in the Digital Age: What Consecutive Modeling Means for Your Patients

Every seven minutes in the United States, a woman is diagnosed with preeclampsiaa pregnancy complication that remains one of the leading causes of mate...

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Revolutionizing Maternal Care: How Deep Learning is Transforming Fetal Monitoring and Preventing Birth Complications

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Transform Your Medical Practice in 2025: The AI Revolution for Coding Doctors

> 'I was skeptical at first, but this AI system saved my practice. I'm saving 20+ hours per week and catching rare diagnoses I might have missed,'
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Breaking Barriers: GPT-4 Matches Physician Performance on Medical Board Exams

In a groundbreaking development that signals a new era in healthcare, artificial intelligence has achieved what many thought impossible: performing at t...

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The Hidden Side Effect of Medical AI Nobody Talks About

In an era where AI and automation promise to revolutionize healthcare, a 19th-century economic principle reveals a hidden risk:Jevons' Paradox. This ph...

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Revolutionizing Medical Imaging with Container Technology: A Busy Physician’s Guide

Discover how containerization is transforming medical imaging for busy clinicians who code. Learn how Docker and Singularity can enhance reproducibility...

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Blog Post Part 2 of 2: "Harnessing AI to Manage Hypertension in Pregnancy"

Explore how AI revolutionizes hypertension care in pregnancy. From risk prediction to personalized treatment, learn how doctors can leverage technology.
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Blog Post Part 1 of 2: "How Telehealth and AI Are Transforming Pregnancy Care"

Discover how telehealth and AI revolutionize care for hypertension during pregnancy. Learn the latest strategies to improve maternal health outcomes.
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Unlocking Generative AI: A Physician’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence

Physicians, often strapped for time and resources, can benefit immensely from understanding and leveraging this technology.
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Deep Medicine: AI and the Humanization of Healthcare

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GitHub AI Projects for Physicians: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Started with Medical AI Development

The intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare represents one of the most promising frontiers in modern medicine. For physicians interested ...

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Coming Soon: Ensuring Data Privacy in AI-Powered Healthcare: A Comprehensive Guide

Physician-developer insights from Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG.
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Can Artificial Intelligence &amp; Probiotics Collaborate to Prevent Preterm Birth?

Every year, countless families face the heartbreak of preterm birth, with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) playing a significant role. Ima...

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Streamline Your Workload: The Clinician's Guide to Effortless Document Summarization

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Ensuring Data Privacy in AI-Powered Healthcare: A Comprehensive Guide

Imagine this: a cyberattack exposes the personal and medical information of millions of patients, leaving them vulnerable to identity theft and financia...

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From #Hashtags to Code: Why Every Doctor Should Embrace the Power of the #

When Chris Messina first proposed using the pound symbol for grouping content on Twitter in 2007, few could have predicted its impact on healthcare comm...
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"Connecting the Dots": How Network Science Can Revolutionize Patient Care

Imagine this: Every prescription, diagnostic scan, or patient encounter you document contributes to a larger, invisible web of dataone with the power t...
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PlacentaVision AI: Revolutionizing Maternal Health with Smart Imaging

Discover how Placentavision AI transforms maternal healthcare using smartphone-based placental imaging. Learn how this breakthrough technology saves liv...

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Unlock Efficiency: How Document Summarization Transforms Healthcare for Busy Clinicians

Imagine entering your clinic and being greeted by a flood of patient records, lab reports, and journal articles, each demanding your immediate attention...

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Ambient Scribe Technology: A Prescription for Physician Burnout and Enhanced Patient Care in 2024

The prevalence of physician burnout has become a critical concern, with nearly half of all physicians reporting symptoms in 2023 . A significant c...
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How Quantum Computing Is Revolutionizing Healthcare: A Simple Guide to Medicine's Next Big Leap

Imagine a world where new life-saving drugs are discovered in days instead of decades. Where doctors can predict exactly how your body will react to a t...

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Transforming Prenatal Care: The Role of AI in Obstetric Ultrasound

Discover how AI in obstetric ultrasound is reshaping prenatal care by improving diagnostic accuracy and access to care. Learn about its benefits and fut...
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AI-Powered Ultrasound: Transforming Prenatal Care with Cutting-Edge Technology

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has leaped from science fiction into real-world applications, revolutionizing industries from finance to t...

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When Code Meets Care: A Doctor's Journey into AI-Powered Medicine

In today's rapidly evolving world, the fusion of artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare is reshaping the way we diagnose, treat, and care for patie...

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AI in Obstetrics: Transforming Maternal Care Through Innovation

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing obstetric care, empowering healthcare providers to deliver precise, timely, and personalized interventio...

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Build Better Healthcare Tools: A Physician's Guide to Web Frameworks &amp; APIs

Discover how physicians can harness web frameworks and APIs to improve patient care, streamline practice operations, and drive healthcare innovation. St...

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Python Programming for Physicians: A Complete Guide to Healthcare Analytics

Meta Description: Learn how Python programming can revolutionize your medical practice. From patient data analysis to AI diagnostics, discover practical...

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AI in Preeclampsia Prediction: Transforming Maternal Healthcare Through Technology

Traditional preeclampsia prediction methods have historically relied on clinical risk factors and basic laboratory tests, achieving sensitivity rates of...
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AI Meets HUAM: A New Chapter in Maternal Care Technology

Home Uterine Activity Monitoring (HUAM) emerged in the 1990s as a promising innovation for detecting preterm labor in high-risk pregnancies. While initi...
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Innovative Solutions That Merge Technology and Community Action Can Transform Maternal Health Outcomes

Maternal health is a cornerstone of public health, yet it remains a challenge in many parts of the world. As a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, Ive ...
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The Role of AI in Maternal-Fetal Medicine: Revolutionizing Prenatal Care

Unlocking the Potential of Artificial Intelligence for Safer and More Personalized Pregnancies
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Why Every Doctor Should Embrace Coding Skills

In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the ability to code is becoming increasingly valuable for physicians. As healthcare becomes more data-...

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Exploring Digital Twins in Healthcare: A Game-Changer for Precision Medicine

The concept of Digital Twins is transforming healthcare by creating a revolutionary pathway toward personalized and precision medicine. For physicians i...
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Unlocking LangChain: A Game-Changing Tool for Developers in Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Langchain is an innovative tool designed for developers looking to harness the power of advanced AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs) l...

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Embracing Coding in Medicine: A New Frontier for Clinicians

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of technology has become undeniably pivotal. As a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, I...
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The Future of Medicine: Embracing Coding in Healthcare

In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the convergence of medicine, technology, and coding is more critical than ever. As a maternal-fetal me...

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