DrB

11/27/2025

My interview with NPR marketplace
When patients bring to us Ai-generated printouts, it’s not defiance, it’s trust. Let’s focus on the “brought to us” part. That’s the trust.

Since it’s inception in 1998, medical doctors have had to contend with “Dr. Google.” More than two decades later, the company’s artificial intelligence tools are the next frontier for many patients.

11/26/2025

Have you ever tried to raise the stakes on your Ai? Be mean to it. See what it does.
- Is this the best you can do?
And watch it apologize to you and give you a better answer.

Jennifer Gastelum did you try that yet?

Watch the full episode
https://youtu.be/fnH87A12-t0

11/23/2025

Well
episode 10 dropped.
And with it a candid conversation with my delicious colleague and friend Dr Gastelum.

I adore you. Thank you for speaking honestly and bringing your lived experience with Ai as a doctor, a mom, a super hero really.

There is a moment in the interview where …
I..
Honestly…
Forgot to breathe…
That much the story was compelling..

You will too. I promise. She’s extraordinary.

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YouTube full episode:
https://youtu.be/fnH87A12-t0?si=QasTgnXuqYN_b0vA

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Apple Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/the-ai-ready-doctor/id1814462141?l=en-GB

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/75d8eec1r0zGHXTLE1HjGl?si=8ac0dcb086564f61

“Disclaimer: Informational only. Not medical advice. Consult your doctor for guidance.”Welcome to another episode of The AI-Ready Doctor, where we explore th...

11/18/2025

When patients bring you Ai-print it’s, that’s not defiance. It’s trust.

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/iBYvx2l95G4

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/the-ai-ready-doctor/id1814462141?l=en-GB

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/711WlCQGbNkhsgzEZkf8Fw?si=289c0388bff44848

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11/18/2025

A simple LinkedIn post I made led to a call from NPR Marketplace.

They found my piece about patients bringing ChatGPT printouts to clinic. They asked to talk about what actually happens in the room when a patient walks in with AI-generated advice. Not theory. Not fear. Real encounters. Real tension. Real opportunity.

I said yes.

The NPR team said they found the post because it “felt honest.”
That meant something to me.
Honesty is how we move this conversation forward.

This interview will air the week of Thanksgiving. And I’m taking this as a sign of something shifting.
The public is now asking the right question:
How do we talk about AI with patients without making them feel judged or dismissed?

Clinicians see the flood coming. Patients are already using these tools. Some arrive with accurate summaries. Some arrive with hallucinated nonsense. All arrive wanting clarity. That’s the moment where we either build trust or break it.

Everyone is reaching for help, and AI is now part of the exam room whether we like it or not.

I’ll share the interview link once it runs.
For now, I’m sitting with the strange feeling of being heard at the national level for saying what many of us see every day.

We’re not debating the future.
We’re describing the present.

And it’s time we talk about it openly.

11/16/2025

When Ai fights Ai for the benefit of the patient then we’re getting somewhere.

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Watch the Full episode: https://youtu.be/iBYvx2l95G4

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/the-ai-ready-doctor/id1814462141?l=en-GB

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/711WlCQGbNkhsgzEZkf8Fw?si=289c0388bff44848

11/16/2025

The first reported Ai agent orchestrated cyber espionage attack by a state sponsored agent. The dream has turned nightmare. It happened mid September. Thank you Anthropic (Claude Ai parent company) for reporting it.

Let that settle for a moment.

In medicine, we like to say “hope is not a strategy.”

Neither is assuming AI vendors have this handled.

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11/15/2025

“I’m going to call 911. Your dad has chest pain.”
That’s the call I got from his home physical therapist.

Thankfully she called me first. Even my dad kept telling her, “This isn’t my heart.” But in our system the words chest pain trigger one thing: 911. Reflexive medicine, not thoughtful medicine.

I was in the middle of an encounter. I apologized, stepped away, and called her. I had seconds to replace reflex with reasoning.

So I gave her objective data fast:

• He has cardiac clearance
• His coronaries are clean
• He just had a liver embolization, right under the diaphragm
• This same pressure happened earlier in the week
• Labs were done
• A rhythm episode was already documented

I asked her to confirm whether it was pain or pressure.
It was the same post-procedure pressure.

She saw his Medtronic device. I told her which button sends a transmission to his cardiologist. I pointed her to his meds and told her which one to give—already prescribed for these episodes.

She said, “Thank you. I’ll document all of this.”

I told her I was on my way (even though my mom was already there). I needed her to confirm he was safe and not alone. She reassured me. She confirmed she would not call 911.

She wasn’t wrong; she was doing exactly what the system trains people to do. I was grateful she reached out before reflex took over.

Because the whole point is to keep my father at home. Not because we’re avoiding reality—we accept his prognosis—but because home is where he wants to be and deserves to be.

When I arrived, he was agitated: “I kept telling her I was OK.”
I reassured him. She was doing her job.

But the truth is hard: our system is not designed for home care, yet everyone pushes families to take loved ones home.

Families want to care for their own. The “burden” isn’t the problem. The lack of support is.

When symptoms start…
When panic hits…
When calls go unanswered…
When you hear “we can’t find anyone until Wednesday”…

Those gaps are where outcomes are lost.

We’re 40 days into the 60 he needs for Medicare days to reset.
But the only real goal is simple:
Keep him home, safely, for as long as we can.

11/13/2025

Joy. That’s the word. Finding joy in what I do. And this episode I had a joyful time chatting with Vivek Nanda from TopHealth.Care about where Ai in healthcare heading.

– How patients bringing AI printouts isn’t defiance, it’s trust
– Why disclosure laws like AB 3030 could rebuild (or ruin) that trust
– When algorithms start denying care before a doctor even reads the chart
– Wnd what happens the day a patient walks in with their own AI notetaker

We also went deep on the part of AI most people ignore, its planetary cost hashtag .
Not just “server energy,” but the mining, water, and human labor behind every “smart” feature.

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/iBYvx2l95G4

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/the-ai-ready-doctor/id1814462141?l=en-GB

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/711WlCQGbNkhsgzEZkf8Fw?si=289c0388bff44848

Newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/theaireadydoctor

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11/12/2025

I won the award. not the "Crowd Favorite" but the "Best Practitioner". I didn't win for pleasing the crowd. I won for earning their respect. That difference is fundamental for me.

Flora Wan, MHI, MASc, PMP thank you for letting me know. "The judges really enjoyed your presentation".
Thank you to the other judges Robert Hoyt MD FACP FAMIA ABPM-CI and Li Zhou
Anthony Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, MS than you for a visionary conference. Thank you to all the more than 150 partners most of whom donated their compensation to scholarships for the young fehal to attend and participate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote that..success is “to earn the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children.”
At AiMed25, that line came alive for me.

This wasn’t a usual crowd.
These were visionaries, people who see medicine not as it was, but as it’s becoming.
Earning their respect means being recognized by those who understand that medical education isn’t changing, it has already changed.

Post-COVID, I’ve reinvented myself.
Every podcast episode, every student workshop, every AI-powered experiment was a way of asking: Can we prepare the next generation of clinicians for a world already shaped by intelligence that learns?

This award *AiMed25 Best Practitioner* feels like an answer.
Validation not just of my work, but of a movement: one that believes hope and innovation can coexist.

To the next generation of digital clinicians, we see you coming.
And we’re getting ready.

And to my family, thank you!
Fortunet Raul
Meryem Bencheqroun
And everyone else.



P.S. This post has been assisted by Ai (ChatGPT. Mistral. Gemini.) and supervised by DrB H.i. (Human Intelligence 😉😎)

11/11/2025

Still buzzing from . I presented my poster today, and it landed. The room gave warm applause, heads nodded, and later people stopped me in the hallways asking how they could bring Human vs AI format in medical education to their own institutions. It was fun, fast-paced, and deeply validating.

The best part? My mentees can now say they were featured at AiMed25.

The other presenters in this Shark tank style one min presentation, was a mix of high-school students, master’s students, residents, physicians, and chief IT officers proof that curiosity crosses generations.

And the posters… wow. The ideas already being tested are incredible. Don’t wait to “get ready.” Start now.

We’ll know the votes on Tuesday but honestly, today already felt like a win.