Building the Physician's Knowledge Flywheel
Why the vault gets exponentially more valuable the more you use it. The long-game thesis: this is the clinical infrastructure that vendors cannot build.
· 10 min read
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Doctors Who Code
The official site of Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG.
Doctors Who Code is where I write as an Atlanta maternal-fetal medicine specialist and physician-developer building AI tools, clinical documentation systems, and physician-led software.
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Clinical Work
Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Atlanta Perinatal Associates
Builder Focus
AI, documentation, interoperability, and bedside tools
Physician-Developer
AI in Medicine
Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Clinical Workflow
FHIR
Python
TypeScript
Clinical Documentation
Interoperability
Medical Billing
OpenMFM
Bedside Tools
141
Published Essays
367
Recurring Topics
MFM
Clinical Specialty
ATL
Clinical Base
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Official Profile
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Read the profile →Core Argument
Why physicians should build
Read the thesis behind Doctors Who Code: doctors should not only use medical technology. They should help author it.
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The Thinking Partner Commands Every Physician Should Build
Slash commands that replace the morning literature review. /challenge, /emerge, /connect, /close-clinic, /graduate: clinical reasoning augmentation, not automation.
· 11 min read
The Physician's Stack: Obsidian + Claude Code + Local LLM
How to build a clinical knowledge vault without sending patient data to anyone's server. The two-vaults architecture, ingestion workflows, and the HIPAA-first policy.
· 12 min read
What Karpathy Actually Built (and Why It Matters for Medicine)
The compilation analogy, explained for clinicians. How LLM Wiki compiles clinical knowledge into synthesized entity pages instead of re-retrieving chunks on every query.
· 9 min read
The PKM System That Was Never Built for You
Why every personal knowledge management app failed physicians specifically, and why Karpathy's April 2026 LLM Wiki changes everything.
· 9 min read
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About the Author
Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG
I am a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Atlanta Perinatal Associates and a physician-developer building AI-powered clinical tools because physicians with domain expertise build better healthcare technology than distant vendors ever will.
I founded CodeCraftMD for physician-led AI documentation and billing systems, and OpenMFM.org for open-source maternal-fetal medicine education.
About Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG →Official Site
DoctorsWhoCode.blog
Specialty
MFM / High-Risk OB
Credential
MD, FACOG
Project
CodeCraftMD
Project
OpenMFM.org