C-Section or VBAC?
Dr. Lindemann’s latest Substack article provides some history on C-sections and why the C-section rate has increased from 10 percent to 30 percent in the ...
Author: dhaugen
Upcoding is Not the Problem with Medicare Advantage Plans
Time to stop looking for any excuse to lower physician Medicare reimbursement. Medicine is the only profession where those without the required degrees to pract...
Reasonableness, Aristotle Style
I have spent a lot of time contemplating what has turned our culture from one in which topics could be discussed, acknowledgment could be made for parts of the ...
art of medicine/artificial intelligence/big business medicine/black box/evidence-based medicine/story space/the sound-bite mindset
Marmots* and “Evidence-Based” Medicine
While I understand the reasoning behind evidence-based medicine (EBM), common sense tells us that no rules are going to correctly fit a situation 100 percent of...
absolutes/art of medicine/artificial intelligence/black box/health care reform/Herbert A. Simon/Hubert Dreyfuss/neural networks/Siddhartha Mukherjee MD
Neural Networks and the Black Box
The excitement over deep learning and neural networks is well deserved, but the notion that artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of “deep learning” will rep...
