Computer vision and endoscopic spine surgery
A few weekends ago I started a side project that has been rattling around in my head since fellowship. This is the long version of it. The first year of practice in Colorado has been a mix of complex spine surgeries and endoscopic spine cases. The endoscopic side just means working through very small incisions […]
AI and Liability in Radiology Workflows
My feed has been full of this story about the head of NYC Health + Hospitals saying he’s ready to replace radiologists with AI for first reads. This came weeks after Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said on a podcast that AI has already taken over the core technical work in radiology. Lots of strong […]
Advancement of surgical robots and governance
Nvidia released a surgical robotics AI model this month called GR00T-H. It was trained on 700+ hours of surgical video from 35 organizations, and in a suturing benchmark it completed an entire suture on its own. No surgeon on the instruments. It hasn’t been tested on a patient, but industry partners are already building on […]
Table selection
Two patients came in the same month. Both needed discectomies. Both had BMIs over 40. The plan was straightforward… until we realized they exceeded the weight limit on our standard prone positioning frame. The solution was already in the hospital. A surgical table in the back corner of the OR: an open prone frame with […]