Archive - 33 charts

Do children need to know how to write?

Native human writing as the exception rather than the rule

Apr 20 •

Bryan Vartabedian

January 2024

December 2023

Intent to leave

What medicine’s new misery metric means for doctors and hospitals

Dec 27, 2023 •

Bryan Vartabedian

The experience of transactional diagnosis

When diagnosis becomes routine, hospitals will be defined by the thing that's scarce

Dec 19, 2023 •

Bryan Vartabedian

What makes doctors dispensable?

If what you do as a physician is easy, you should be concerned

Dec 12, 2023 •

Bryan Vartabedian

Big Shot Doctors

Everybody wants to be a big shot. But that's not what patients want

Dec 7, 2023 •

Bryan Vartabedian

The EHR Thank You Crisis

The perfunctory thank you is Exhibit A in a crisis of creeping institutional noise

Dec 2, 2023 •

Bryan Vartabedian

November 2023

July 2023

Digital Exhaust #200

AI cannibalism, rising speech delay, and my father's imagined trip to the poor house

Jul 23, 2023 •

Bryan Vartabedian

Digital Exhaust #199

Doctors as commodities and the urinal of things

Jul 16, 2023 •

Bryan Vartabedian

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