Medicine, Technology, and the Space Between.
Long-form writing by Dr. Sina Bari, MD - physician, medical executive, and Stanford-trained surgeon - on the forces reshaping healthcare, clinical ethics, and the future of the profession.
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All Essays →The Personal OS Is Coming: Why AI Will Make Software Feel Hand-Crafted Again
AI tools are lowering the cost of software creation so fast that the center of gravity is moving from mass-market SaaS toward software shaped around one person at a time. The transition will look chaotic before it looks elegant, because personalization always starts as a pile of awkward edge cases and ends as an interface that feels inevitable.
Read Essay →Was Al Bundy Fraysexual? What Middle-Aged Male Desire Has Meant in Popular Media
Popular media has long coded middle-aged heterosexual cis-male sexuality as either invisible, comic, or predatory, and that pattern says as much about gender anxiety as it does about desire. Read through a clinician-humanities lens, the shift from Ward Cleaver to American Beauty to White Lotus reveals changing scripts for masculinity, age, and appetite, and why those scripts matter for the next generation.
Read Essay →Dr. Sina Bari, MD is a Stanford-trained plastic and reconstructive surgeon and medical executive. His editorial work explores the intersection of clinical medicine, artificial intelligence, and the evolving identity of the physician in a technological age.
He writes about technology at sinabari.net. His surgical education writing lives at sinabariplasticsurgery.com. His professional profile is at sinabarimd.com.