It is a Tuesday morning, some years from now. A sixty-four-year-old man is being admitted for complex heart surgery. His daughter has not searched for the surgeon online. She has not called a friend who is a nurse. She has not asked whether the night staff are any good. She has no reason to. The… Continue reading The Day Healthcare Becomes Like Aviation
I know that headline will bother some people. The healthcare system faces a documented, growing shortage of instructors. There are fewer qualified trainers, compressed schedules, and staff pulled in too many directions. The training infrastructure was straining before the workforce crisis made things worse. The typical response is to treat this as an emergency—scramble for… Continue reading The Instructor Shortage Is a Gift
I spent twenty-six years as a cardiac surgeon. I have been in operating rooms and ICUs more times than I can count when someone was doing CPR on a patient. And I can tell you — the thought was not occasional, it was not situational. It was constant. Every time. All the time. There is… Continue reading BLSXR vs. Manikin: What the Research Says
I have been a cardiac surgeon for more than twenty-five years.
Stress is not the exclusive domain of medicine. Every discipline has its own version of the moment when everything is on the line and the nervous system must decide who you really are.
Medicine measures attendance, not competency. AI-powered immersive medicine tracks performance under stress and predicts skill decay before failure.
