Quick post today to let you know that over on medmic.com, you can read an excerpt of my book! The Algorithm Will See You Now is a speculative thriller exploring the use of AI in healthcare. It releases on March 2nd, but you can still snag a preorder on Amazon or Black Rose Writing. And…
Comments closedAlgorithm Anarchist* – week of 2/16/23 It’s been a busy week of AI in the news! Let’s dive right in: 1. A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled Kevin Roose, technology columnist in The New York Times, wrote today about his interaction with Bing’s new chatbot, “Sydney.” His takeaway: “It’s now clear to…
Comments closedA weekly roundup of AI algorithms in the news Greetings readers! In my upcoming speculative thriller, The Algorithm Will See You Now, there’s a podcaster who dubs herself the “Algorithm Anarchist.” She’s trying to get the world to see the truth about Big Medicine conglomerate “PRIMA” — Prognostic Intelligent Medical Algorithms (but no spoilers). So…
Comments closedToday, February 3, 2023, is National Women Physicians Day! To recognize the day, I thought it would be fun to put together a roundup of my favorite blog posts on Women In Medicine over the past two years. 1. Gendered Expectations of Physician Accessibility My reflection on how my daily clinic experience is vastly different…
Comments closedToday marks one month until the release of my book, The Algorithm Will See You Now, into the world! To celebrate, I’m doing a giveaway on Goodreads! I’ll be giving away 10 signed paperback copies of the book! The giveaway will be open for the month of February. Advance praise for The Algorithm Will See…
Comments closedI haven’t done one of these year-end round-ups before, but given 2022 marked the five year anniversary of the blog, it seemed a good year to start. For each post, I’ve selected a favorite passage to highlight (different from the preview passage you’ll see on the home page). First, the top five most read blog…
Comments closed(hashtag satire, y’all) To: [Group: all employees] From: Office of the CEO Subject: A fork in the road Going forward, we will need to be extremely hardcore to streamline a restructured Health care 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly diseased world. This will mean working even longer hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will…
Comments closed(Spoiler warning: contains minor spoilers for the first few episodes of The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power, on Amazon Prime) Galadriel, you may be the Elf Commander of the Northern Armies, the Warrior of the Wastelands, and the Lady of the woods of Lothlórien, but I am a human woman and, therefore,…
Comments closedThis weekend, after seeing others on social media post images from openAI’s DALL-E-2 art generator, I decided to give it a try. After thinking on a topic that (1) I am interested in, (2) others are interested in, and (3) I was curious to see an AI’s ability to interpret, I decided on the topic…
Comments closedWhat Twitter has meant to me I joined Twitter in September of 2019. A Gen-X holdout, it was my first foray into a social media platform. (If this sounds crazy to you, it was because during the MySpace and Facebook years, I was mired in medical training and then with “balancing” a career and young…
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