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Monday, March 16, 2026

Bad Medicine, Better Medicine?

The source of a modern miracle. 

News update: Good riddance to the bad Paul Ehrlich, a terrible influence in the world. (Not to be confused with the good Paul Ehrlich.)

Podcast: AI, GLP, and the Future of Medicine. (Transcript of the first part.) 
(Also, very long: Statins and the future of heart disease.)
(Also, an excellent discussion of when and how to use an LLM instead of Google.)

I regularly hear people badmouth LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude in terms of medical advice or diagnosis. I don't know in what world those people live (maybe they've never had a health problem) but I have had, over and over again, absolutely horrific and incompetent medical "care." And I have always had insurance, I'm smart enough to understand a lot, and Anne is there to help.

Just last year, I experienced absurd (and unbelievable) malpractice. My primary care doc (who has since retired) said, "You have the weirdest things happen to you." The NP for my new doc said, "That's the weirdest story I've ever heard." 

But it wasn't unique, not even to me. (At least I wasn't told I had cancer when I didn't. Ugh.)

I'll take health care by algorithm any day.

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