AI in Primary Care: Revolution or Risk?

AI will transform primary care! AI does better diagnostics than doctors! Patients like AI responses to their portal messages better than their doctors’ messages! Providers save hours a day in charting with the help of AI scribes! Lots of hype. What’s real? I haven’t engaged in AI yet in my doctoring, so I have suspended…

Bearing Witness to Violence on Chicago’s South Side

As a family physician on Chicago’s South Side, every day brings painful and beautiful stories, many variations on a theme–gun violence, senseless loss, deep heartbreak for loved ones, deep love for family, faith in God. Patients share how they cope with life constraints and limited opportunities with warmth, humor, anger, sadness and love. I am going to…