GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a language generation model from OpenAI that has changed how we think about what computers can do with text....

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I spent this week in Washington, D.C. for the American College of Physicians' Leadership Day on Capitol Hill. I went as part of the Georgia delegation...

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Hospital discharge after acute heart failure hospitalization is one of the most vulnerable periods for patients. Studies consistently show that the first 90 days after discharge carry a high risk of rehospitalization and mortality ...

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A glossary of AI terms that come up most often, from LLMs and transformers to hallucination and alignment. If you're trying to catch up on AI terminology, start here...

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I was recently inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society. The plaque arrived in the mail and I sat with it for a while before hanging it up...

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As physicians, we've all faced that familiar moment of uncertainty in clinic when a patient needs hospital admission, but we're unsure whether they should go directly to the floor or through the emergency department ...

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This weekend project started when my wife asked me if I could help her build something to manage the constant flood of emails and flyers she was getting daily. Between school announcements, sports schedules, and after-school activities, she was drowning in event notifications...

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I built the Azalea Report, SGMC Health's Internal Medicine Residency Newsletter, as a web app using Next.js and Decap CMS over a weekend ...

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The hospital is always busy, always rushing. But sometimes a patient makes you slow down. For me, that was Mr. B., who wanted just one thing for Christmas ...

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He was a healthy aircrew member in his mid-thirties. No heart disease. No medications. No family history. He drank a bottle of ice-cold water in the middle of the night and his heart slipped into atrial fibrillation. The rhythm shrugged off flecainide and 200 joules of electricity. Then, about 22 hours later, it just stopped on its own.

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Commotio cordis happens when a blunt hit to the chest stuns the heart. It's rare but serious, mostly affecting young athletes in contact sports....

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I built a system that treats AI models like a hospital. The right clinician for the right problem. Most questions don't need a subspecialist. Here's how it works, explained without jargon.

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By the time the paramedics wheeled her through the double doors of the emergency department, nothing made sense anymore. Not her words. Not her eyes. Not the numbers flashing across the monitor. She was 57, small-framed, pale, with a knitted hat pulled too low over her forehead...

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I recently began my tenure as chief resident. This means that, among other things, I am responsible for coordinating a full year of subspecialty didactic lectures. That includes eighty four slots and dozens of speakers, all of which have historically been tracked through spreadsheets, email threads, and memory. I wanted something better...

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Each day in the emergency department starts with not knowing what's coming. During my recent two-week elective rotation as an internal medicine resident, the automatic doors would slide open and the day would begin ...

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I met him on my inpatient rotation. An elderly veteran whose wife never left his side. His case taught me something about empathy that no textbook could...

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I wasn't expecting to see my own face on the elevator doors at SGMC Health. But there I was, white coat and stethoscope, next to the hospital's message...

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I spent a lot of time researching the best combination of complementary frameworks to build this website, and eventually settled on using NextJS to build it, hosting it in a private Bitbucket repository, and deploying...

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While Hurricane Helene tore through South Georgia, I was inside a church that had been converted into a shelter, volunteering as a resident physician alongside Red Cross staff ...

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Monkeypox has been in the news a lot recently. The virus has been present in Central and West Africa since the early 1970s, but in May 2022 it started spreading beyond that region.

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At Cognizant Softvision's Programmers' Week conference, I saw a presentation about an open-source insulin bolus calculator built by a developer for his son with Type 1 Diabetes. I decided to contribute.....

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I kept needing to get code snippets, URLs, and notes from my computer to my phone. So I built a small paste app that sends text straight to Telegram ...

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Dosing albumin after a large-volume paracentesis is simple math wrapped in a confusing Epic order. So I built a calculator that does both.

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I worked as a doctor in Ghana for over a decade, and that experience shaped how I think about primary care and why it matters...

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I picked up R because I needed better tools for working with data. The package ecosystem, statistical analysis capabilities, and built-in support for reproducible research made it worth learning...

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I have been wanting to run a personal AI assistant that I actually control for a while now. Not something locked behind a browser tab that disappears when I close my laptop, but something always on, always available, running on my own hardware. When I came across OpenClaw, it checked every box.

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In this short tutorial I'll show you how to go about creating a React application and deploying it to Github Pages (a free web hosting service provided by Github)...

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I got to join my colleague Dr. Anna Ledford on SGMC Health's podcast to talk about what residency is actually like, our paths to medicine, and why primary care matters more than most people think ...

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Margaret, a 71-year-old avid gardener, arrived at our emergency department after being bitten by what she believed was a baby rattlesnake...

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I recently presented on skin cancer and farmers at the 46th Annual Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition in Moultrie, Georgia. The event made clear why healthcare professionals need to show up in agricultural spaces ...

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I recently built a desktop application to solve a problem I kept running into: browsing through exported Telegram chats. If you've ever exported a Telegram conversation, you know you get a folder full of HTML files that aren't particularly easy to navigate or search through...

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The call came in as a routine trauma alert - a car had veered off the road and struck a tree just outside town. The driver, a 37-year-old man, wasn't wearing a seat belt. At first glance, his injuries appeared modest. But there were details that didn't quite fit...

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The brother did not refuse to let go because he did not understand. He refused because he did not trust that the system offering to let his brother die peacefully was the same system that had ever offered his brother a fair chance at living.

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AI can seem intimidating, but the core concepts aren't that complicated. Here's a plain-language guide to the terms you'll encounter most often...

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I picked up a 93-year-old woman this morning in the ICU. Septic shock. Her blood pressure was tanking despite maxed-out pressors. The family was there, exhausted, scared, confused. I've done this before. Too many times, probably. But it doesn't get easier.

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