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December 2023

This Is Not A Leaf
The role of intention in natural selection
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Kevin M. Johnson, M.D.

November 2023

The Importance of Dialogue in Radiology
Overreliance on written communication is hazardous
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Kevin M. Johnson, M.D.
The Immaterial World
Why materialism is an incomplete picture of reality
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Kevin M. Johnson, M.D.
The Fixation of Belief in Medicine
The role of reason versus evidence
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Kevin M. Johnson, M.D.
Charles Sanders Peirce: The Fixation of Belief
(1877, edited version)
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Kevin M. Johnson, M.D.

October 2023

All Symptoms Are Real
"Symptoms" refers to the patient's experience of their body and mind - pain, fatigue, weakness, depression, etc.
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Kevin M. Johnson, M.D.
Sensitivity, Specificity and All That
Understanding measures of diagnostic test performance
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Kevin M. Johnson, M.D.
Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Radiologists?
Yes, when it replaces engineers and everybody else
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Kevin M. Johnson, M.D.
Chat GPT-4: About Alice
A supplement to my post "Alice's Guardian Angels"
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Kevin M. Johnson, M.D.
Alice's Guardian Angels
The story of a missed diagnosis, and how "outside" intervention managed to prevent (a worse) disaster
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Kevin M. Johnson, M.D.
Screening With Whole Body MRI
Is Having a Medical Test Always a Good Idea?
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Kevin M. Johnson, M.D.
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