Mike Moore, DO FAAFP
@drmikemoore.bsky.social
Physician & Advocate. 40+ years of US Army service. #FamilyMedicine & #meded geek. PNWU.edu Associate Professor of Family Medicine Passionate about Critical Access Hospitals and Rural Health. #FMRevolution #FMSky #EMsky #medsky #academicsky #InRecovery
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The Trail Ahead
Mentorship, trust, and finding flow.
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Reflecting on what it feels like to arrive at my dream job. Teaching, mentoring, and practicing in the rural communities I care about is significant, but not easy. I’m learning that flow doesn’t come from perfection. it comes from humility, trust, and walking the path with students and patients.
22 Years After His Death, Warren Zevon Is Getting His Due www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...
22 Years After His Death, Warren Zevon Is Getting His Due
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October 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
22 Years After His Death, Warren Zevon Is Getting His Due www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...
Rethinking Apprenticeship: Final Thoughts from TEDAI 2025 #MedEd
Memoirs and Reflections: Rethinking Apprenticeship
San Francisco — October 2025
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October 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Rethinking Apprenticeship: Final Thoughts from TEDAI 2025 #MedEd
“I can’t help but think about how often we curate reality for ourselves, softening the edges to preserve comfort.”
Memoirs and Reflections: The Honest Ride
San Francisco — October 22, 2025
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October 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“I can’t help but think about how often we curate reality for ourselves, softening the edges to preserve comfort.”
“The point is not to collapse differences but to find the common ground that unites disadvantaged populations everywhere. In that shared space, we discover empathy, perspective, and the beginnings of peace.” @aafp.org
Finding Common Ground: When Rural Health Meets Global Health
Reflections from the 2025 AAFP Global Health Summit
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October 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“The point is not to collapse differences but to find the common ground that unites disadvantaged populations everywhere. In that shared space, we discover empathy, perspective, and the beginnings of peace.” @aafp.org
Older, but not letting the heart get colder (apologies AF)
Returning to Anaheim
Two decades, two ‘uniforms,’ and the same question: What does purpose look like after the climb?
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October 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Older, but not letting the heart get colder (apologies AF)
October 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
“The truth will set you free, but not before it is finished with you.”
~David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
~David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
September 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“The truth will set you free, but not before it is finished with you.”
~David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
~David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Brilliant.
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David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About these Eight Things
This author, who committed suicide in 2008, is more timely now than ever before—for the worst possible reasons.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Brilliant.
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AI in healthcare will be safest and most transformative not when it copies aviation, but when it honors medicine’s uncertainty.
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Clinics not Cockpits
AI in healthcare will be safest and most transformative not when it copies aviation, but when it honors medicine’s uncertainty.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
AI in healthcare will be safest and most transformative not when it copies aviation, but when it honors medicine’s uncertainty.
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Reflecting on what it feels like to arrive at my dream job. Teaching, mentoring, and practicing in the rural communities I care about is significant, but not easy. I’m learning that flow doesn’t come from perfection. it comes from humility, trust, and walking the path with students and patients.
The Trail Ahead
Mentorship, trust, and finding flow.
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September 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Reflecting on what it feels like to arrive at my dream job. Teaching, mentoring, and practicing in the rural communities I care about is significant, but not easy. I’m learning that flow doesn’t come from perfection. it comes from humility, trust, and walking the path with students and patients.
Legendary. IYKYK
September 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Legendary. IYKYK
Beware the “Hamburger Helper Index” Sales Rise as Americans Try to Stretch Their Food Dollars www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
Hamburger Helper Sales Rise as Americans Try to Stretch Their Food Dollars
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September 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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AI speaks fluently — but fluency isn’t understanding. At the limits of language, contradiction appears, and that’s where human judgment must guide.
#AI #MedEd #Ethics #PhilosophyOfAI #FutureOfWork
#AI #MedEd #Ethics #PhilosophyOfAI #FutureOfWork
The Limits of Language and the Edges of AI
At the boundary of language, contradiction is not failure.
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September 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
AI speaks fluently — but fluency isn’t understanding. At the limits of language, contradiction appears, and that’s where human judgment must guide.
#AI #MedEd #Ethics #PhilosophyOfAI #FutureOfWork
#AI #MedEd #Ethics #PhilosophyOfAI #FutureOfWork
Reposted by Mike Moore, DO FAAFP
I am reminded, if you'd indulge me for ruining this moment with one of my favorite #DoctorWho quotes: "Goodness is not goodness that seeks advantage. Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit - without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis."
September 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I am reminded, if you'd indulge me for ruining this moment with one of my favorite #DoctorWho quotes: "Goodness is not goodness that seeks advantage. Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit - without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis."
Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare, and the future is partnership, not replacement.
Taming the Centaur
How do we train physicians in the use of an AI-powered Clinical Co-Pilot?
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September 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare, and the future is partnership, not replacement.
A bit of poetry for you. #meded
Out of place
Fragment
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September 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A bit of poetry for you. #meded
My Latest on Substack…
A False Dilemma
From Chessboards to Clinic Notes: What AI History Can Teach Medicine
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August 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
My Latest on Substack…
Rough draft time…
August 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Rough draft time…
My first post on Substack.
The Wisdom King
A journey.
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July 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
My first post on Substack.
There’s a reason the Dean’s Executive Assistant has extra tassels. Me. I’m the reason. 🎓
May 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There’s a reason the Dean’s Executive Assistant has extra tassels. Me. I’m the reason. 🎓