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 Borderless Clinic: How AI Globalizes the Knowledge Economy
A clinician’s encounter with AI reveals a larger shift, the knowledge economy is becoming borderless because the models we use are trained on the accumulated work of people across the world. For physicians and other knowledge workers, that changes who competes, who benefits, and who gets left behind.
Read Essay →When Memorization Stops Being the Point
A physician reflects on the old prestige of encyclopedic medical knowledge and makes the case for a different standard in the age of AI: judgment, humility, and the ability to use tools without surrendering responsibility. The real question is no longer how much a doctor can store in their head, but what they can do when the answer is one click away.
Read Essay →The Physician Identity Crisis in the Age of AI: What Happens When Expertise Becomes a Prompt?
A clinician’s authority used to live in pattern recognition, judgment, and the hard-won ability to sit with uncertainty. AI now turns parts of that expertise into prompts, and the profession is left to decide what should be delegated, what must stay human, and what identity remains when the machine can mimic the surface of knowing.
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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.