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The same field, four lanes — long-form for operators, tactical notes for trainees, plain language for patients, and the methods underneath it all. Filter by lane.

Doctrine6 min read

The 15-minute visit is a settlement, not a standard

Primary care didn't choose the fifteen-minute visit; it inherited it. The number is a billing artifact now asked to carry a workload it was never priced for — and the difference gets absorbed by the clinician in the room.

Jun 18, 2026
Field Notes6 min read

A letter between computers

What HL7, ADT, and FHIR actually are — explained without jargon, with one patient's trip through a hospital as the running example.

Jun 17, 2026
Translations5 min read

Your blood pressure is a verb, not a number

Why the single reading on the cuff is the least interesting thing about it — and what your body is actually doing between visits.

May 28, 2026
Field Notes6 min read

The differential isn't a list. It's a probability cloud.

The single mental upgrade that separates students who memorize differentials from clinicians who actually use them.

May 15, 2026
Doctrine7 min read

Value-based care, explained without a single buzzword

Strip the jargon and it's almost embarrassingly simple. The hard part was never the concept — it's the operational reality.

Apr 30, 2026
Translations4 min read

What 'preventive care' actually prevents

Spoiler: not everything. A clear-eyed look at what screening can and can't do — without the wellness-industrial-complex hype.

Apr 12, 2026
Field Notes6 min read

Reading a troponin without panicking

A high-sensitivity troponin is not a yes/no light. Treating it like one is how good students order bad workups.

Mar 22, 2026
The Lab7 min read

I let an AI draft my notes. Here's the line I won't let it cross.

On building clinical tooling that's genuinely useful without quietly outsourcing the part that makes you a doctor.

Mar 5, 2026