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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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Physician-developer in scrubs working at a multi-monitor clinical workstation at night with imaging, code, and notes visible on screen
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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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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Physician at a workstation reviewing medical images, code, and system monitoring dashboards side by side
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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Cinematic physician-developer workflow showing research inputs flowing from Telegram and source materials into structured drafts, PDFs, and a publishable editorial pipeline
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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Hospital workstation with clinical dashboards and code monitors outside a patient room at night
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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InboxDetox dashboard showing AI-categorized email subscriptions on a dark interface displayed on a monitor
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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Pregnant woman sitting alone on a dark couch late at night, her face lit by the glow of her phone as she types a medical question into a chatbot
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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Hospital IT conference room with vendor AI presentation on screen, physicians at the table, one with a code editor open
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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Dark terminal screen showing timestamped biometric log entries with the text LOGS BEFORE INTELLIGENCE centered in the foreground
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's home office desk at night with laptop showing a simple Python script, warm lamp light against cool screen glow
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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Empty hospital conference room with whiteboard showing Users and Builders columns
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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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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Physician-developer building clinical knowledge infrastructure
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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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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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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Insurance denial forms being cut through by a glowing line of code
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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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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Shattered circuit board shaped like a stethoscope, symbolizing failed physician-built AI tools
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

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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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

The Disappearing Note: How Automation Is Rewriting Clinical Documentation

By Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije | MaternalFetal Medicine

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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

🧩 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

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

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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Blogging

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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