AI Dx - Your weekly diagnosis of healthcare AI and innovation

AI Dx - Your weekly diagnosis of innovation, AI, and evidence-based medicine

Evidence-based insights on healthcare innovation, artificial intelligence, and medicine. Written by Bhargav Patel, MD, MBA - physician-scientist, researcher, and leader at the intersection of clinical medicine and technology.

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AI is eroding judgment on both sides of the screen

Aug 15, 2026

Two new studies, one on how AI models fail under a false sentence, one on how we fail under a confident answer. Read together, they're a warning.

Antidepressants: neither miracle nor menace

Aug 8, 2026

Ten common claims about antidepressants, and what the evidence actually says about each.

AI amplifies whatever the system already rewards

Aug 1, 2026

Two arguments, one on organizational readiness, one on primary care, that land on the same uncomfortable truth.

We're watching the wrong side of the AI-in-therapy debate

Jul 25, 2026

Two new studies, one on what clinicians actually do with AI, one on whether it works, redraw the whole conversation.

Reasoning beats recall

Jul 18, 2026

An 8-billion-parameter agent out-reasoned models 80x its size at choosing treatments, and the reason is the most useful lesson in medical AI right now.