AI playbooks for Healthcare

PubMed just added another million articles this year. You're supposed to stay current on all of it. Meanwhile, you have patients to see, notes to write, and a life outside the hospital that's been waiting for you since residency.

You just spent 20 minutes explaining heart failure management. The patient nodded along, seemed to understand, and left with your photocopied handout written at a 12th-grade reading level. Two weeks later, they're back in the ER—they didn't realize the warning signs you carefully described.

It's 7 PM. You've seen 24 patients. Your In-Basket shows 47 unread messages. "Can you refill my blood pressure medication?" "What do my lab results mean?" "My shoulder still hurts—should I be worried?" Each one needs a thoughtful response. Each one takes 3-5 minutes. You're not going home soon.

You're spending 2+ hours every night on notes. You know it, I know it, the 54% physician burnout rate knows it. Documentation is eating your life.

Here's a number that should make you angry: administration consumes 25% of US healthcare costs—$1.3 trillion annually. A quarter of everything we spend on healthcare goes to paperwork, not patient care.