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Guidelines, Innovation, and Medical Judgment in the Age of LLMs
Apr 29, 2026 · 00:28:59
A detailed discussion of two medical innovation case studies, Semmelweis and laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and what they teach us about using LLMs to recommend or judge treatment.
00:00 Opening, 03:05 Semmelweis: The Evidence, 06:10 Semmelweis: The Resistance, 08:15 Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Rapid Adoption, 09:33 Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: The Evidence Gap, 11:17 Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Critical Appraisal, 14:00 Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Why Enthusiasm Won, 15:49 The Pairing, 18:53 What This Means For LLM Recommendations, 21:51 What This Means For Judging Doctors, 24:52 A Practical Framework, 27:24 Closing
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Crossing the Chasm for Agentic Cancer Registry Abstraction
Apr 29, 2026 · 00:18:55
An overview of Crossing the Chasm, translated into practical go-to-market ideas for an early-stage startup building agentic AI for hospital records abstraction, starting with cancer registry abstraction.
00:00 Opening, 01:47 The Adoption Curve, 04:00 What The Chasm Looks Like In Hospitals, 06:02 The Beachhead, 08:08 The Whole Product, 09:57 Positioning, 11:46 Competition And Alternatives, 13:22 The Bowling Alley, 14:56 What This Means For Your Startup, 16:47 Questions To Carry Forward, 17:43 Closing
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OPTN Registry Meeting Prep: Data Flow, Abstraction, and AI Agent Opportunities
Apr 26, 2026 · 00:18:10
A focused briefing for a meeting with an OPTN registry leader, covering OPTN background, data flow, major forms and fields, submission cadence, current abstraction work, and where AI agents may fit.
00:00 Opening, 01:31 What OPTN Is, 03:21 The Data Flow, 06:19 Forms, Fields, and Cadence, 09:05 Who Does the Work Today, 10:58 Where AI Agents Could Fit, 13:21 What To Ask In The Meeting, 15:25 The Meeting Mental Model, 17:13 Closing
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Anatomy as the Intermediate Representation: Four Papers on Spatially Aware Medical Vision Models
Mar 28, 2026 · 00:40:14
A long technical podcast on four recent papers about anatomy-aware reasoning, grounding, segmentation, and 3D spatial evaluation in medical imaging, tied back to the idea that future models may need an intermediate representation of the body rather than direct pixels-to-diagnosis shortcuts.
00:00 Opening, 03:26 The Big Thesis, 05:48 Paper One: AOR Overview, 08:21 Paper One: AOR Method and Ontologies, 10:49 Paper One: AOR Results and Interpretation, 13:33 Paper Two: AnatomiX Overview, 16:34 Paper Two: AnatomiX and Shortcut Resistance, 18:40 Paper Two: AnatomiX Results and Relation to the Ideas File, 21:01 Paper Three: KG-SAM Overview, 22:28 Paper Three: KG-SAM Method in Detail, 24:30 Paper Three: KG-SAM Results and Broader Meaning, 27:06 Paper Four: SpatialMed Overview, 28:42 Paper Four: SpatialMed Construction and Why It Matters, 30:20 Paper Four: SpatialMed Results and Failure Modes, 32:25 Cross-Paper Synthesis, 34:31 What Is Still Missing, 36:28 Which Papers Best Support the Post, 37:57 Final Thoughts
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Chapter Test Episode
Mar 28, 2026 · 00:01:11
A longer test episode to verify automatic chapter timing from Markdown headings.
00:00 Opening, 00:25 Middle Note, 00:48 Final Check
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