Doctors Who Code

In the world of high-risk pregnancy, minutes matter. Whether we are managing a case of preeclampsia or coordinating a fetal intervention, the clinical stakes are immense. Yet, as a Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) specialist, I’ve found that the biggest hurdle to patient care often isn’t the pathology—it’s the paperwork. Specifically, the Prior Authorization (PA). At CodeCraftMD, […]

By Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG – Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist & Founder of CodeCraftMD The Death of the “One-Size-Fits-All” Solution For the past two decades, medical software has been synonymous with monolithic platforms—Epic, Cerner, and their ilk—massive systems designed to serve every specialty, every workflow, and every conceivable use case. As physicians, we’ve learned to contort […]

Why I Finally Cancelled My UpToDate Subscription After 12 Years I just did something that would have been unthinkable five years ago: I cancelled my UpToDate subscription. For those keeping score, I’ve been an UpToDate subscriber for over twelve years. It was the clinical reference tool that lived in a perpetually open browser tab, the […]

Meta Description: A maternal-fetal medicine physician and developer addresses concerns about AI “legitimacy” in healthcare, distinguishing professional tool use from academic dishonesty and explaining why LLM-enhanced medical communication improves patient outcomes. Let’s Talk About the “C” Word: Cheating I’ve noticed something interesting in physician circles lately: there’s significant hand-wringing about whether using ChatGPT or other […]

When Clinical Insight Meets Personal Stakes I live at an unusual intersection. I’m a maternal–fetal medicine physician managing complex, high-risk pregnancies. I have long-standing type 2 diabetes. And right now, I’m training for my second half-marathon in two years. That combination creates a real, clinically relevant systems problem—one I face every morning when I lace […]

The adoption crisis in clinical AI isn’t technical — it’s generational. Here’s what 18 months building CodeCraftMD taught me about who actually uses physician-built tools. By Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOGMedical Director, Atlanta Perinatal Associates | Founder, CodeCraftMDBuilding HIPAA-compliant AI tools for real clinical workflows I spent last Tuesday watching a third-year resident use ChatGPT to […]

Why Physicians Must Learn to Code: AI in Healthcare 2026 Meta Description (155 chars): A maternal-fetal medicine specialist explains why doctors who code are essential for safe AI integration in healthcare. Responding to Dr. Robert Wachter’s NYT essay. Primary Keywords: doctors who code, medical AI, physician developers, healthcare AI implementation, clinical AI tools Secondary Keywords: […]

January 18, 2026 The Weekend That Sparked Everything It was 11:47 PM on a Saturday night, and I was staring at my EMR screen trying to remember whether “threatened abortion” was O20.0 or O03.4. I had just finished a lengthy inpatient maternal-fetal medicine consultation—complicated monochorionic twin pregnancy, discordant growth, possible twin-to-twin transfusion—and now I was […]

By Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije, MD | Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist & Founder, CodeCraftMDJanuary 2026 • 12 min read The 3 AM Problem That Changed How I Build Software At 3:47 AM on a Tuesday, I was manually transcribing my seventh high-risk OB consultation of the day into our EMR. The patient had a complex fetal cardiac […]

Why I Built an HTML Slide Repository Most Maternal–Fetal Medicine (MFM) physicians accumulate years of teaching material—PowerPoint decks, PDFs, screenshots, and handouts scattered across laptops, cloud drives, and email threads. The problem is not lack of content; it is lack of structure. I wanted a system that was: This weekend, I built exactly that: a […]

By Chukwuma I. Onyeije, MD, FACOG Medical Director, Atlanta Perinatal Associates | Creator of CodeCraftMD & PreEclampsiaWatch Why Doctors Search for Coding Courses (and Why It Slows Them Down) Many physicians are also becoming doctors who code, as they recognize the importance of technology in healthcare. A familiar pattern repeats itself in the medical community. […]

A manifesto for physicians who want to build software, solve clinical problems, and actually ship products. https://doctors-who-code-mzuotpo.gamma.site The world of 2026 is radically different from the one where software developers spent years watching tutorials, memorizing syntax, and grinding through complex CS textbooks. Today, physicians who code—or want to code—face an unprecedented opportunity. You no longer […]