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A reproducible 300-question evaluation across medical exams, biomedical literature, multilingual question answering, and clinical calculation Meta released Muse Glimmer on 10 August 2026: thirty billion parameters, open weights, built for agentic work on consumer hardware.[1,2] I tested a quantized version five days later on a single NVIDIA RTX 3090 — partly because it was the…
Vasoactive-Inotropic Score as a Worked Example Introduction: The Data Is There. The Variable Is Not. Every conversation about clinical AI opens on the same premise: hospitals are sitting on enormous quantities of data. True enough, and almost useless as a starting point. An electronic health record is a transactional system, built for documentation, for billing,…
Narrative medicine transforms clinical practice through close reading and reflective writing. A comprehensive guide for physicians and researchers, from Rita Charon’s Columbia programme to Oliver Sacks, Tolstoy, and Jerome Groopman.
Hunting for the largest language model you can run on a personal computer has turned into a discipline of its own. Forums, repositories and social feeds circulate configurations that load models of 70, 120, even several hundred billion parameters, using consumer GPUs, generous amounts of system RAM and increasingly aggressive quantisation. The results are frequently…
I went back to the Odyssey when Nolan’s film came out, for reasons that had nothing to do with medicine. I did not get far. Book I stopped me. Odysseus, we are told almost in passing, once sailed to Ephyra to find a man named Ilus, son of Mermerus, and to ask him for a…
Deleting the patient name from a DICOM file feels like anonymization. It is not. A cardiac CT study I once pulled for a teaching file had a blank PatientName, a scrubbed PatientID, and a perfectly readable date of birth sitting three tags down in a private block the vendor never documented. The header looked clean….
There is a specific moment, familiar to anyone who has gone down this road, when you finish downloading a model with “Med” in its name and realise you have no idea whether it is actually any good. The name promises domain expertise. The model card promises benchmarks. Neither tells you what happens when you ask…
The most compliant place for a patient’s record to meet a large language model might be a machine sitting under your own desk. That sounds like a provocation. It is closer to a legal observation. In May and June 2026 the European Union rewrote part of its own AI rulebook, and most of the coverage…
Article authored by Michele D. Pierri, MD Cardiac Surgeon & Medical Technology Researcher Last updated: July 2026 Reading time: 5 minutes Ten patients. Zero recurrences. That’s the headline buried inside a small New England Journal of Medicine report that, frankly, deserved more attention than it got. In April, a Johns Hopkins team used personalized “digital…
SummaryDante Alighieri’s Inferno is a theological poem, yes, but it is also, almost incidentally, a forensic catalogue of medieval disease and healthcare. This article reads the poem through the lens of medical history: how Dante represents specific pathologies (dropsy, scabies and possibly leprosy, neurological deformity, hypothermia, traumatic mutism), how he mimics diagnostic observation, and how…