Technology

Nothing Better than Silicon

A Tale of Surrogate Decision-making in Three Parts

May 27, 2025 • Josh Briscoe

Where The Walls Listen

Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Scribes

Mar 28, 2025 • Josh Briscoe

The Priesthood of Medicine

A Response to Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten

Jan 13, 2025 • Josh Briscoe

Still Human: Roots of the Uncanny Valley

Notes from a Family Meeting is a newsletter where I hope to join the curious conversations that hang about the intersections of health and the human…

Oct 19, 2024 • Josh Briscoe

Limits and Goals in Medicine

Or, Monsters in the Basement and Wizards in the Kitchen

Sep 14, 2024 • Josh Briscoe

Crafting Health

Of Workmanship and Medicine

Jun 5, 2024 • Josh Briscoe

The Burden of Choosing

Of Autonomy and Brinkmanship

May 23, 2024 • Josh Briscoe

Medicine is Magic

So Don't Treat It Like Science

May 5, 2024 • Josh Briscoe

A Machine Better Than Family

Artificial Surrogate Decision-Makers (i.e., the Patient Preference Predictor)

Mar 29, 2024 • Josh Briscoe

Dilemmas Wrought by Life-sustaining Therapies

Nov 4, 2023 • Josh Briscoe

Patients as Markets

Or, How to Make Money from the Bearers of Amyloid Plaques

Oct 28, 2023 • Josh Briscoe

Is Enhancement a Goal of Care?

Notes from a Family Meeting, Vol. 5, No. 1

Oct 2, 2023 • Josh Briscoe

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