Writing
Notes on building clinical AI that has to survive contact with actual hospitals, plus the occasional post about getting into rooms I was never invited to.
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The booth is the cost
A hearing test is one of the cheapest procedures in medicine, so why does almost nobody in rural India get one? The answer is the room, not the test. What has to be true before you can delete the sound booth.
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A clinician who cannot see why will not act
I had a screening model that scored better than the one we deployed. I threw it away. On buying attribution with accuracy, and why explainability is an architectural constraint rather than a research topic you add later.
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ICD-11 has no clean map from ICD-10
Coding is where health data quality is silently won or lost, long before anybody trains a model on it. Four migration cases, three of which need a clinician, and why we kept a human in the loop on purpose.
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How I cold-emailed my way into eleven research labs
No application portals, no referrals, no pedigree. The first fifty emails got me nothing. Here is the single change that took the reply rate to roughly one in six.
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