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 Smallest Room in the Hospital
A clinician's essay on how AI should serve the global health mission, not merely expand digital convenience. The real promise lies in designs that survive scarcity, bias, and distance, especially when they begin with the patient who has the least access and the most at stake.
Read Essay →When Omics Break the FHIR Promise: The Workflow Crisis Hiding Inside Precision Medicine
Precision medicine is exposing a gap in modern EHR design: omic data can be exchanged, but not always used cleanly at the bedside. The real failure is workflow, not transport, and it shows up where clinicians feel it first, in fragmented review, delayed decisions, and manual chart archaeology.
Read Essay →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.
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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.