FDA Clearance Is Not a Monitoring Plan
Clinical AI can fail without crashing. Physician-developers must build the monitoring, outcome linkage, and human checkpoints that keep cleared software safe after deployment.
· 18 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
172
Published Essays
444
Recurring Topics
MFM
Clinical Specialty
ATL
Clinical Base
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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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From Meetings to Modules: Redefining Clinical Coordination
Clinical teams do not move slowly because clinicians are slow. They move slowly because pages, meetings, and verbal handoffs force physicians to keep re-explaining decisions that software should carry forward.
· 6 min read
Surviving the AI-Native Transformation: A Physician-Developer's Guide
AI makes clinical software cheap to produce. It does not make it safe. Physician-developers must build systems in which speed remains subordinate to evidence, judgment, and the doctor-patient relationship.
· 6 min read
Weekend Project: Sending Emails to My Second Brain
I built a pipeline that turns any email into a tagged Markdown note in my Obsidian vault, using nothing but Gmail, Apps Script, and the GitHub API.
· 8 min read
AI's Next Breakthrough Is Not a Bigger Brain. It Is a Memory You Can Trust.
The AI race has been about model size for years. The real bottleneck is memory: trustworthy, auditable knowledge that persists across years, not conversations. Medicine will feel this shift first.
· 10 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.
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DoctorsWhoCode.blog
Specialty
MFM / High-Risk OB
Credential
MD, FACOG
Project
CodeCraftMD
Project
OpenMFM.org