Sumant Ranji
@sumantranji.bsky.social
Professor of Medicine at UCSF, hospitalist at San Francisco General Hospital. Fan of good music and bad teams. Views my own.
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When patients don't trust their health insurance, cancer diagnostic delays double (30%→60%). Coverage uncertainty itself disrupts care. Read more and watch the interview on this new research: codex.ucsf.edu/coverage-unc...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
When patients don't trust their health insurance, cancer diagnostic delays double (30%→60%). Coverage uncertainty itself disrupts care. Read more and watch the interview on this new research: codex.ucsf.edu/coverage-unc...
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I'm glad the authors noted that "incorporating patient's preferences for music...may have resulted in different findings" because exposure to slow-tempo relaxing contemporary music is about the most reliable way to increase my pain and anxiety
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Slow-Tempo Music and Delirium/Coma-Free Days Among Older Adults Undergoing Mechanical Ventilation
This randomized clinical trial aims to determine if a slow-tempo music (60-80 beats/min) listening intervention decreases delirium duration, delirium severity, pain, or anxiety in older adults undergo...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I'm glad the authors noted that "incorporating patient's preferences for music...may have resulted in different findings" because exposure to slow-tempo relaxing contemporary music is about the most reliable way to increase my pain and anxiety
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AI is transforming healthcare fast—but how do we ensure it actually improves diagnosis? UCSF CODEX brought together 30 healthcare leaders to develop practical metrics for measuring AI's impact on diagnostic excellence. Full story: codex.ucsf.edu/news/healthc...
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
AI is transforming healthcare fast—but how do we ensure it actually improves diagnosis? UCSF CODEX brought together 30 healthcare leaders to develop practical metrics for measuring AI's impact on diagnostic excellence. Full story: codex.ucsf.edu/news/healthc...
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Things today's White House autism announcement did not do:
-Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families
-Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear
-Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience
-Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families
-Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear
-Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience
September 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Things today's White House autism announcement did not do:
-Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families
-Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear
-Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience
-Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families
-Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear
-Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience
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Highlighting some of the many current pitfalls of A.I. in health care
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If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?
Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Highlighting some of the many current pitfalls of A.I. in health care
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It is grimly ironic to write “I am concerned about MAHA” in the chart
September 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
It is grimly ironic to write “I am concerned about MAHA” in the chart
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I wrote a little thing about Chicago, my beautiful complicated city, on the eve of occupation. dansinker.com/posts/202…
September 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I wrote a little thing about Chicago, my beautiful complicated city, on the eve of occupation. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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This essentially is sending #autism discussions back sixty years back to the days when society blamed unloving mothers for their children becoming #ActuallyAutistic. It's going to inflict endless guilt among moms across the country.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr., HHS to Link Autism to Tylenol Use in Pregnancy and Folate Deficiencies
Kennedy’s autism report, touted by Trump, will suggest that using the pain reliever during pregnancy may be linked to the developmental disorder.
www.wsj.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This essentially is sending #autism discussions back sixty years back to the days when society blamed unloving mothers for their children becoming #ActuallyAutistic. It's going to inflict endless guilt among moms across the country.
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
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August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6
“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
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🚨 Registration is open for #DEX25!
📅 Oct 27–29, 2025
📍 Ann Arbor, MI
Join experts, early career professionals, educators, researchers, and patients to advance diagnostic excellence through presentations, workshops, and community building.
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📅 Oct 27–29, 2025
📍 Ann Arbor, MI
Join experts, early career professionals, educators, researchers, and patients to advance diagnostic excellence through presentations, workshops, and community building.
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August 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🚨 Registration is open for #DEX25!
📅 Oct 27–29, 2025
📍 Ann Arbor, MI
Join experts, early career professionals, educators, researchers, and patients to advance diagnostic excellence through presentations, workshops, and community building.
🔗 umich.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...
📅 Oct 27–29, 2025
📍 Ann Arbor, MI
Join experts, early career professionals, educators, researchers, and patients to advance diagnostic excellence through presentations, workshops, and community building.
🔗 umich.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...
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"“I ain’t ever bought no prostitutes. I ain’t never raped nobody. I ain’t never paid anybody off. None of that stuff,” said G, a resident from one of the photographed tents.
“He’s much more of a criminal than I am”"
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“He’s much more of a criminal than I am”"
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Donald Trump threatens to clear encampments in D.C.
With D.C.’s MPD now under federal control and the National Guard coming to D.C., the fate of people in encampments remains up in the air.
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August 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"“I ain’t ever bought no prostitutes. I ain’t never raped nobody. I ain’t never paid anybody off. None of that stuff,” said G, a resident from one of the photographed tents.
“He’s much more of a criminal than I am”"
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“He’s much more of a criminal than I am”"
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🎥 Event recording now available!
Whether you joined us live or are just catching up, this session offered valuable insights into how systems-based strategies and patient-centered AI can work together to improve diagnostic excellence.
Learn more and watch now: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...
Whether you joined us live or are just catching up, this session offered valuable insights into how systems-based strategies and patient-centered AI can work together to improve diagnostic excellence.
Learn more and watch now: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...
July 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🎥 Event recording now available!
Whether you joined us live or are just catching up, this session offered valuable insights into how systems-based strategies and patient-centered AI can work together to improve diagnostic excellence.
Learn more and watch now: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...
Whether you joined us live or are just catching up, this session offered valuable insights into how systems-based strategies and patient-centered AI can work together to improve diagnostic excellence.
Learn more and watch now: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...
The fact that some of the most prominent proponents of artificial intelligence are inveterate racists should be more of a concern than it seems to be right now
New from me. Hope you’ll give it a read www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”
www.washingtonpost.com
July 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The fact that some of the most prominent proponents of artificial intelligence are inveterate racists should be more of a concern than it seems to be right now
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As a doctor in a hospital that serves the urban poor, Lindsay Ryan's patients already face such a gantlet of obstacles that modest barriers to accessing government programs can effectively screen them out.
The Reality My Medicaid Patients Face
With work requirements in place, many will be removed from Medicaid even though they should qualify.
bit.ly
July 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
As a doctor in a hospital that serves the urban poor, Lindsay Ryan's patients already face such a gantlet of obstacles that modest barriers to accessing government programs can effectively screen them out.
Amid [everything], there is a new Hüsker Dü live album coming out, so there is still some hope for 2025
July 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Amid [everything], there is a new Hüsker Dü live album coming out, so there is still some hope for 2025
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Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.
June 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.
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🎥 Our June webinar event recording is now available!
We were delighted that Christopher Longhurst and Beth Daley Ullem joined us for their discussion, "Talking AI with Patients: A Roundtable on What Health Systems Should Say—and Hear."
View the recording: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...
We were delighted that Christopher Longhurst and Beth Daley Ullem joined us for their discussion, "Talking AI with Patients: A Roundtable on What Health Systems Should Say—and Hear."
View the recording: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...
June Webinar: Talking AI with Patients: A Roundtable on What Health Systems Should Say—and Hear
As AI becomes more deeply embedded in healthcare, how should health systems engage patients in conversations about the AI being used on them and about them? This…
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June 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🎥 Our June webinar event recording is now available!
We were delighted that Christopher Longhurst and Beth Daley Ullem joined us for their discussion, "Talking AI with Patients: A Roundtable on What Health Systems Should Say—and Hear."
View the recording: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...
We were delighted that Christopher Longhurst and Beth Daley Ullem joined us for their discussion, "Talking AI with Patients: A Roundtable on What Health Systems Should Say—and Hear."
View the recording: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...
Vaccine recommendations coming from this administration have no legitimacy. ACIP, FDA, CDC - all fatally compromised by RFK Jr's lunacy. Whatever they say on vaccines should be ignored.
RFK Jr just announced the new chair and co-chair of ACIP. Chair: Martin Kulldorff.
Co-chair: Robert Malone
He also said he never committed to Cassidy not to change the makeup of the panel.
Co-chair: Robert Malone
He also said he never committed to Cassidy not to change the makeup of the panel.
June 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Vaccine recommendations coming from this administration have no legitimacy. ACIP, FDA, CDC - all fatally compromised by RFK Jr's lunacy. Whatever they say on vaccines should be ignored.
Written three or four Middle East wars ago….
Rat Patrol
YouTube video by Naked Raygun - Topic
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June 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Written three or four Middle East wars ago….
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Out now: CODEX Digest - June 19, 2025
This week's must-reads dig into AI bias in diagnosis, malpractice risks, and patient-centered tools driving diagnostic excellence.
Dig in here: codex.ucsf.edu/codex-digest...
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This week's must-reads dig into AI bias in diagnosis, malpractice risks, and patient-centered tools driving diagnostic excellence.
Dig in here: codex.ucsf.edu/codex-digest...
Subscribe to get them straight to your inbox: ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
June 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Out now: CODEX Digest - June 19, 2025
This week's must-reads dig into AI bias in diagnosis, malpractice risks, and patient-centered tools driving diagnostic excellence.
Dig in here: codex.ucsf.edu/codex-digest...
Subscribe to get them straight to your inbox: ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
This week's must-reads dig into AI bias in diagnosis, malpractice risks, and patient-centered tools driving diagnostic excellence.
Dig in here: codex.ucsf.edu/codex-digest...
Subscribe to get them straight to your inbox: ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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🌟Register for CODEX's June webinar!
"Talking AI with Patients: A Roundtable on What Health Systems Should Say—and Hear"
Ft. Beth Daley Ullem and Christopher Longhurst
🗓️ June 24, 2025
🕥 12:30-1:30 p.m. Pacific Time
🔗 Register: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...
"Talking AI with Patients: A Roundtable on What Health Systems Should Say—and Hear"
Ft. Beth Daley Ullem and Christopher Longhurst
🗓️ June 24, 2025
🕥 12:30-1:30 p.m. Pacific Time
🔗 Register: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...
June 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🌟Register for CODEX's June webinar!
"Talking AI with Patients: A Roundtable on What Health Systems Should Say—and Hear"
Ft. Beth Daley Ullem and Christopher Longhurst
🗓️ June 24, 2025
🕥 12:30-1:30 p.m. Pacific Time
🔗 Register: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...
"Talking AI with Patients: A Roundtable on What Health Systems Should Say—and Hear"
Ft. Beth Daley Ullem and Christopher Longhurst
🗓️ June 24, 2025
🕥 12:30-1:30 p.m. Pacific Time
🔗 Register: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...
This will probably happen with clinical notes produced by ambient scribes and AI chart summarization tools. Unlikely that busy clinicians will catch AI errors since that doesn’t happen now with copy-and-paste errors.
People producing documents full of AI hallucinations in serious contexts will only get worse as businesses embrace AI “productivity gains” in the era of cost cutting.
They work faster but it’s really easy for people to skim over content they didn’t write when their employers are pushing for speed.
They work faster but it’s really easy for people to skim over content they didn’t write when their employers are pushing for speed.
120 court cases have been caught with AI hallucinations, according to new database
More than 20 legal professionals have been busted in the past month alone.
mashable.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This will probably happen with clinical notes produced by ambient scribes and AI chart summarization tools. Unlikely that busy clinicians will catch AI errors since that doesn’t happen now with copy-and-paste errors.
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If any pro-vaccine study did something like this, the anti-vax movement would broadcast it so loud and make it the centerpiece of a documentary. But, bc the anti-vax movement is fundamentally about eugenics and propaganda, they'll just hand-wave it away, play the victim, and move on.
The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
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White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If any pro-vaccine study did something like this, the anti-vax movement would broadcast it so loud and make it the centerpiece of a documentary. But, bc the anti-vax movement is fundamentally about eugenics and propaganda, they'll just hand-wave it away, play the victim, and move on.