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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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Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Atlanta Perinatal Associates

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The Map Has Blind Spots

Move 37 was not a parlor trick. It was a warning. Physician-developers need to be ready for the moment AI starts finding medically important patterns our inherited maps never taught us to see.

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AI Just Outperformed Physicians at Clinical Writing. This Should Not Surprise You.

HealthBench Professional shows AI has already crossed the threshold in clinical writing and documentation. The real lesson is not replacement. It is that physician-developers need to build the harness.

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When AI Told a Dying Man What He Wanted to Hear

Joe Riley trusted AI over his oncologist and died of a treatable cancer. His tragedy wasn't naivety — it was earned distrust, amplified by a machine that had no way to know the difference.

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Deployment: When Your Code Becomes Clinical Reality

An app on your laptop helps no one. Deployment is the step where physician-developer work finally becomes available to patients, colleagues, and clinics.

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Postgres and Prisma: Where the Data Actually Lives

Clinical software becomes real when it remembers. This is the database layer that turns a one-off calculator into a longitudinal tool.

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Tailwind CSS: Design Without Asking a Designer

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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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Official Site

DoctorsWhoCode.blog

Specialty

MFM / High-Risk OB

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MD, FACOG

Project

CodeCraftMD

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OpenMFM.org