Podcast on Maternal Mortality
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any developed country, but few people know this. Until 1996, maternal death rates were gradually de...
Author: dhaugen
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...
Between Authors and Editors
I have always been interested in the interaction between writers and editors, probably because I have sat in each of these two chairs. As an editor in a departm...
