It’s not a physician’s job to create or program Artificial Intelligence, but the recent warnings that AI could eliminate humanity within 10 years force…
If the current trend of inadequate numbers of anesthesia clinicians in the United States is not reversed, this insufficient supply of will be a…
“Write what you know” is perhaps the most repeated advice given to prospective authors. Physicians know medicine and are uniquely qualified to write medical…
Author Rick Novak, MD, does an exquisite job of crafting a scenario in which a man is accused of murdering his lover and her…
Litigator Cicely Vella’s ex-husband is arrested for a double murder, and asks her to be his defense lawyer. Cicely rarely loses a case, but her…
Is it feasible that CHATGPT, this decades artificial intelligence wunderkind, can equal or better a physician anesthesiologist? I entered three anesthesia consultations into CHATGPT,…
Anesthesiologists at the Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower…
A South Korean group led by Dr. Y.E. Jang published a study in this month’s issue of Anesthesiology describing the use of a head-mounted smart glasses display…
Do you want an algorithm, or a human, to be your doctor? In 2004 I began writing Doctor Vita, a novel describing the encroachment of…
The February 2020 edition of Anesthesiology, our specialty’s preeminent journal, published an article on robotic anesthesia.1 The accompanying editorial by Dr. Thomas Hemmerling was titled…
My name is Rick Novak, and I’m a double-boarded anesthesiologist and internal medicine doctor and a writer of medical fiction. I'm here to talk…
This week the Palo Alto (California) Weekly ran a feature story on Rick Novak and Doctor Vita Uploaded: Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 9:27 am…