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 Quiet Work of Staying Human Around AI
A clinic room, a delayed note, and a patient’s offhand sentence can expose what AI changes in medicine, and what it leaves untouched. The hardest question in the AI age is not whether physicians will use tools, but what kind of professional judgment they will refuse to surrender.
Read Essay →The Maker’s Loop: Kinetic Art, Cassette Futurism, and the New Amateur Renaissance
A physician’s essay on the way AI is changing who gets to build, tinker, and imagine. From reel-to-reel machines to creative co-doodlers, the real shift is not speed, it is access.
Read Essay →Corporate AI Slop and the Case for Saying Less
Last Tuesday, a long reply landed in my inbox that looked polished at first glance and hollow on second read. In medicine, I have learned that the shortest useful message often carries more truth than a longer one assembled by a machine.
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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.