Eric Spitznagel
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
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- Aug 28, 2026
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- Aug 21, 2026
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How Scrubs (and Time) Quietly Stole the White Coatâs Mojo (opens the original)
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The white coat was supposed to make Amber K. Brooks, MD, MS, unmistakably look like a physician. It did not. Early in her career, Brooks, now a professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, wore one over her scrubs in the pain clinic. Patients still referred to the young Black doctor as a nurse or a medical student. She would politely reintroduce herself as Dr Brooks, their pain medicine physician. “I truly believe that
Born Too Late? Young Doctors Speak Out on the âGolden Ageâ (opens the original)
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At first, the woman didn’t recognize Clare Rudman. Two years earlier, Rudman had spent a month talking to her while she lay intubated in a Denver ICU. The woman couldn’t answer, so Rudman supplied both sides of the conversation. She complimented the patient’s makeup and told her stories. As the woman slowly began to wake, she squeezed Rudman’s hand, nodded, and rolled her eyes in response. Now the woman stood in the same ICU with a cane and portable oxygen. Rudman said her name. The woman heard
Yes Machines: The Mental Health Minefield of AI Chatbots (opens the original)
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Consider what a chatbot is, stripped to its essentials. It’s available at any hour. It never interrupts. It never gets tired of you, and it doesn’t disagree in the same way a person does, with irritation, body language, or even the slightest pause that tells you you’ve gone too far. In one of the most widely reported cases of what researchers now call AI psychosis, a 26-year-old woman with no prior psychiatric history came to believe she was communicating with her deceased brother through a chat
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