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Dec 23, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Neil Anand
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more embedded in health care, the ability to accurately evaluate AI models is critical. In medical applications, where early diagnosis and anomaly detection are often key, selecting the right performance AI metrics can determine the clinical success or failure of AI tools.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Neil Anand
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly permeate our health care industry, it is imperative that physicians take a proactive role in evaluating these novel technologies. AI-driven tools are reshaping diagnostics, treatment planning, and risk assessment, but with this transformation comes the responsibility to ensure that these systems are valid, reliable, and ethically deployed.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Muhamad Aly Rifai |Neil Anand |Dawn Baker |Wendy Levinson
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that impairs focus, attention, and behavioral control. ADHD hinders and compromises major life activities. Initially considered exclusively a disorder afflicting children and adolescents, it is now widely accepted that ADHD continues into adulthood, impacting the lives of those plagued by this impairment and disability.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Neil Anand |L. Joseph Parker |Muhamad Aly Rifai |George Mathew
In 1948, Claude Shannon revolutionized the world of communication with his theory of information, showing that precision and efficiency could emerge from chaos. Roughly 40 years earlier, Max Planck had done something similar in physics by discovering the rules of quantum mechanics, reducing uncertainty in an unpredictable universe. These two minds, though working in entirely different fields, shared a common vision: to bring order out of entropy.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Neil Anand |Julie Craig |Richard A. Lawhern
The United States federal government is a single entity, despite its three equal branches having more heads than a hydra and more arms than Mahakali. One part of that federal government is not supposed to create and propagate standards that another part arrests you for following, as confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Oregon. When it comes to the criminalization of medicine by the DEA and other federal law enforcement agencies, that rule has clearly been broken.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Neil Anand |Muhamad Aly Rifai |Janet Tamaren
The true definition of criminal behavior has always been problematic. Are we criminals because we break the law or because we have been convicted? Famous and revered people throughout history have clearly broken the law but are almost never defined as criminals. All the founding fathers of the United States self-admittedly committed treason against the crown, a capital offense.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Muhamad Aly Rifai |Neil Anand |L. Joseph Parker |Aaron Morgenstein
As health care predictive algorithms, including the Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP), expand their reach beyond traditional enforcement of health care regulations, the concept of a social credit score has emerged as a powerful but controversial tool.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Neil Anand |Jonathan Peters |Cindy Thompson
I have a problem with some of the continuing medical education courses offered by large health care institutions, even those like Harvard and Mayo, which have outstanding reputations for evidence-based medicine. That’s because what they teach, although scientifically sound and in line with the Department of Health and Human Services and CDC recommendations, can get you prosecuted and convicted by the DEA.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Neil Anand |Emma Yasinski |A.J. Reid Finlayson
In the state of New York (you already know it’s going to be bad), a doctor and a pharmacist were arrested in a sting operation conducted by a joint task force of the DEA, FBI, IRS, and probably CIA and CBS, though I have no proof of the latter two. The doctor, Mordechai Bar, and the pharmacist, Feroze Nazirbage, have been accused of “violating their oaths,” something you almost never hear said about a prosecutor who hides evidence, but I digress.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Neil Anand |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury
Australia is a very beautiful and unique place. I first went to Sydney in 1996 to present some research I had accomplished together with a much more brilliant and capable research physician. I was able to ride the monorail, now gone I’m told, and travel to the Outback, or at least the edge of it. My wife and the two oldest still at home at that time went there a few years ago, and it was still just as amazing, to hear them tell it. Australia is like America squared.
