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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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The Local Advantage: Why Physician-Developers Should Build on Local LLMs Instead of Consumer AI

Consumer AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude are useful. But a physician-developer who deploys a locally fine-tuned model on controlled infrastructure has something more powerful: a clinical tool that learns your practice, respects your data, and costs less at scale.

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Clinical Documentation Automation Should Remove Friction, Not Replace the Doctor

Documentation automation is not a typing solution. It is a workflow design problem. For physicians and physician-developers, the real goal is protecting clinical judgment from administrative drag.

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I Built PGIS Recipes Because Food Systems Need Architecture

PGIS Recipes started as a stack of Marp slide decks. I turned it into a GitHub Pages library because nutrition guidance only compounds when the delivery system is structured, durable, and easy to revisit.

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Why Doctors Should Learn to Code

Not to become programmers. To become the kind of physician who can close the gap between a clinical insight and a working solution.

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Doctors Who Code: Build Systems, Not Just Models

A TEDx pitch says physicians should build AI. I agree. But the work that matters is governance, validation, and delivery, not one-afternoon demos.

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Inbox to Insight: Building the DoctorsWhoCode Engine

Physicians do not have an information problem. We have a conversion problem. Inside the Telegram-driven research engine I built to turn links, papers, transcripts, and videos into drafts, PDFs, and durable editorial records.

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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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MFM / High-Risk OB

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MD, FACOG

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CodeCraftMD

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OpenMFM.org