Topic
Patient Safety
Errors, evidence, and the discipline of safe-by-default clinical AI. Why every AI suggestion in Medows is verifiable against the source.
17 posts
- 14 August 2026 · Medows3 min
Clinical AI's Real Danger: What It Skips
The largest clinical AI safety study yet found most severe errors are omissions, not wrong answers, and purpose-built tools beat general chatbots.
- 7 August 2026 · Medows2 min
Clinical AI Explanations Can Mislead Beginners
A Nature Medicine study finds AI diagnostic explanations boost novice confidence even when wrong, while trained clinicians barely benefit.
- 5 August 2026 · Medows2 min
AI Scribe or Medical Device? The UK Decides
The MHRA just clarified when an AI scribe counts as a medical device in the NHS, and what it means for the doctors relying on one.
- 4 August 2026 · Medows3 min
Which AI Can a Doctor Actually Trust?
A new leaderboard scores 18 AI models on medical safety. The general chatbots doctors reach for aren't the safest ones in the room.
- 4 August 2026 · Medows3 min
AI Finds Bias in Half of Pregnancy Notes
A new AI analysis of 640,000+ obstetric notes found stigmatizing language in 47% of pregnancies, worse for Black and less-educated patients.
- 15 July 2026 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari · PGT General Medicine, RG Kar Medical College2 min
India moved to ban paraquat. The casualty doctor's problem does not end today.
India issued a draft order to ban paraquat on 13 July. It is not final yet, and the patient who walks into casualty tonight still has no antidote.
- 12 July 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows4 min
Why Medows Is the First AI Clinical Workspace
Most clinical AI solves one task. Medows is an AI clinical workspace built for the doctor on rounds — holds your list, answers grounded in the patient on screen, handover over WhatsApp.
- 6 May 2026 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari & Alapan Mondal5 min
The CCF Case Nobody Escalated
A 62-year-old man in decompensated CCF by 10 p.m. The 6 p.m. obs were the inflection point. Nobody saw them as a slope.
- 22 April 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
What Changed When We Standardised Handover
I-PASS cut preventable adverse events by 30%. The follow-up showed adherence to the bundle decayed by year-end. What that tells us about tool design.
- 3 March 2026 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari & Alapan Mondal5 min
Hyperthyroid Storm — The Case I Almost Missed
A 28-year-old with fever, tachycardia, and hypotension. Sepsis was the obvious differential. The TSH was the answer.
- 5 February 2026 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari & Alapan Mondal4 min
The DKA That Survived Because of One Note
A 45-year-old man, DKA, an 11 p.m. ABG, and a handover line that meant the receiving doctor caught a worsening at 3 a.m. instead of 8.
- 23 January 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows4 min
The Stroke Time Window Under Heavy Load
A 93-minute window. 140 minutes to needle. About 1.9 million neurons lost per minute. Where the time actually went.
- 21 December 2025 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari & Alapan Mondal5 min
The Polypharmacy Trap in the Geriatric Ward
An elderly man on warfarin, a new antibiotic, and the kind of interaction every pharmacy software catches — but only after the order is dispensed.
- 8 December 2025 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari & Alapan Mondal4 min
Pediatric Dosing in the Busy OPD
A 14 kg child, the wrong dose, and the dose-checking literature that says it's the system, not the resident.
- 25 November 2025 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
Why We Still Hand Over on Paper
The largest published reduction in preventable adverse events in residency literature came from a structured handover. Most of us still do it on a folded sheet.
- 28 October 2025 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari & Alapan Mondal5 min
Sepsis That Walks In Talking
She walked into casualty post-op, day 2, with vitals that looked fine on every check. The slope was the diagnosis.
- 15 October 2025 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
The Interrupted Shift
A K+ of 5.9 that should have been caught at the bedside, the 9-minute interruption interval published in 2010, and why every ward tool we have assumes the doctor's working memory is intact.