Richard Lehman

Final reflection for today: the essence of professionalism is to know what you are doing, and to care about the effect of everything you do.

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Time and time again, you really have to scratch yourself to recall that @Keir_Starmer was actually an international human rights lawyer. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

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Airdrops will not stop this, as they cannot provide even one fifth of the daily trucks needed. Like the last time they were used, they will only provide Israel with a cosmetic measure for reorganising its starvation policies and advance its mass expulsion plans.

Wow, so the rubbery big mac goes back to 1825.

In Episode 9 of "The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited," resident physician and venture capitalist Morgan Cheatham and med student Daniel Chen explore generative AI's impact on medical training, from classroom learning to clinical practice. msft.it/6011s1Qrd

Promising steps towards splitting the lump of metabolic risk states currently called type 2 diabetes.

I think this might be my favorite episode of this podcast series. Talking to current med students about their thoughts and actions on AI in medicine is enlightening. It's impressive how they are really leaning in and learning together.

I might have said that Macron's statement about recognition of Palestine was tokenistic but reading the annoyance and rage coming out of supporters of Israel, is revealing how scary it is for them when the old certainties of the West-Israel link start to crack.

All it needs is a some air cover from the countries who claim to be appalled by the genocide in Gaza. Come on Starmer. You have some catching up to do. Trump is weak and worried. You could show some independence before he visits the UK.

Question for my followers ... As #AIinHealthcare rapidly advances, how do we ensure that the human touch in patient care isn't lost? Should there be limits to AI's role in decision-making? Let’s discuss! #PatientSafety #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI

Exactly this. Which humans and which values? AI develops at astounding speed through self-iteration: we need to be part of that, but lack the structures to do it independently of industry. @gentlemedic @SylvieDelacroix @EJSMD @AdamRodmanMD @dafraile

Unless there happens to be a bit of pork pie that needs finishing...

At last something strong and truthful from UK. But do we have a Prime Minister? Where is he? What has he to say for himself? Will he do something?

“Just outside Gaza, tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items & fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them," write 109 aid agencies today, including Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam and Amnesty. Israel is…

The reservoirs around Sheffield are all beautiful. In 1959 my parents took me on a bus tour called Sheffield's Lakeland. Water and woodland for hours. Later we moved to the Rivelin Valley which became my playground. What a city.

We are excited to share our latest pre-print enabling effective human oversight for AMIE, our research diagnostic dialogue AI. We introduce a new asynchronous oversight paradigm, decoupling history-taking by AMIE from sharing a human-approved diagnosis – a thread 🧵:

Ivy-leaved toadflax growing on an #Oxford wall💜 Its 17th century name was ‘Oxford ivy' or 'Oxford weed’ because it was thought to have arrived from Italy via the packaging of a marble statue destined for an Oxford college garden💜🐸💜🐸

In an editorial, V. L. Murthy, MD, PhD, writes that we may be entering an era of specialist–generalist medical AI paradox, wherein AI more rapidly advances in performing tasks that humans require specialization to perform than in general medical tasks. nejm.ai/4nm6054

AI-assisted primary care in Kenya racks up impressive reduction in diagnostic and therapeutic errors. When do we fix primary care in Boston and Palo Alto?