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 Waiting Room, the Screen, and the Price of Looking Away
A morning clinic scene becomes a larger argument about physician identity in the AI age: the screen now competes with the patient for a clinician’s attention, and the real question is which kind of medicine we are willing to practice. I used to think better software would fix this. Then the clinic taught me that design, team structure, and moral discipline matter more than slogans.
Read Essay →The Chief of Staff: Building a Local Voice Agent as a Personal Operating System
How I built a multi-agent personal operating system: a local voice assistant, an executive notification agent, and six domain agents that gave me back the mental space I was spending on tracking my own life.
Read Essay →The Hidden Ethics of Second Opinions in the Age of AI: Who Is Responsible When the Model Is Wrong?
When AI enters the diagnostic chain, the “second opinion” becomes a shared judgment across clinician, institution, and vendor, and responsibility gets harder to locate when the model is wrong. The real ethical question is not whether AI can advise care, but who owns the consequences when human trust, workflow design, and software output collide.
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.