Practical. No hype. I have eleven sessions on my calendar this week. Claude added all of them from a spreadsheet in under two minutes. I did not open the calendar once. That’s not a demo. That’s Tuesday morning. The rota comes through, I pass it to Claude, and the week is in my calendar before … Read more
Practical. No hype. The most enjoyable thing I’ve built with AI this year has nothing to do with surgery. It’s a debate council — six historical figures convened around a table to argue any question I throw at them. Socrates asks questions that destabilise everyone else’s answers. Marcus Aurelius finds equanimity in the cosmic indifference … Read more
Practical. No hype. The most common mistake I see surgeons make with AI is using Chat for everything. Chat is fine. It’s where most people start and it’s a genuinely useful tool. But it’s one mode of one product, and using it for tasks that other modes handle better is like doing everything with a … Read more
Practical. No hype. Fifteen minutes. That’s genuinely all it takes to go from an account that produces generic answers to a setup that knows your role, your writing style, your patients, and how you prefer to work. Most people never do this. Most people get generic answers. This post is the setup guide. Do this … Read more
Practical. No hype. You spend twenty minutes giving Claude the context it needs — your role, your department, what you’re working on, how you prefer to communicate. It gives you exactly what you need. You close the tab. Next time you open it, the slate is blank. Claude knows nothing about you. You start again. … Read more
Practical. No hype. The first time I asked Claude to write a referral letter, it came back polished, professional, and completely wrong. Not factually — the clinical content was fine. But it didn’t sound like me. It sounded like someone who had read a lot of referral letters and written a composite. That’s not what … Read more
A closer look at the evidence. I used ChatGPT for about eight months before I switched. I’m not evangelical about it — plenty of people use ChatGPT well — but there were a few things that happened in quick succession that made me want to reassess, and once I looked properly, I didn’t go back. … Read more
Practical. No hype. Most surgeons who ask me about AI assume the expensive tier is the right starting point. It usually isn’t. I made the same mistake: I paid for the top option before I understood what I actually needed. This post is the answer I wish I’d had before I spent any money. The … Read more