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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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Prompting has a ceiling. Once you hit it, you are coordinating every step manually while the AI handles individual tasks. Here is the framework and three live workflows I use to cross that line.

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Burnout Is Not From Working Too Hard. It Is From Working on the Wrong Things.

For physician-developers, burnout often comes from low-value technical friction. The answer is not more endurance. It is better delegation to systems, automation, and agents.

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Hantavirus at Sea: What the MV Hondius Outbreak Teaches Physician-Developers

The MV Hondius outbreak was not only a rare infectious disease story. It exposed familiar failures in travel history, triage logic, outbreak data exchange, and emergency logistics.

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I Gave an AI Agent 94 Skills and Let It Help Run My Clinical, Coding, and Theology Workflows

Three weeks into running Hermes Agent in production, I can say this: the real value is not the model. It is the workflow ecosystem wrapped around it. Here is what 94 specialized skills looks like in a real physician-developer stack.

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The Architecture Behind My 24/7 AI Operations Partner

The model is not the product. The workflow is the product. Here is a technical look at the production stack behind a physician-built AI operations partner: Docker, Traefik, model failover, rate limits, logs, HIPAA boundaries, and the failure modes I watch for every week.

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Dead Weight: What a 1970 Cardiology Textbook Taught Me About the Future of Clinical Evidence

A half-century-old textbook on congenital heart disease. A chapter on Ebstein's anomaly. A comparison that changed how I think about evidence, AI, and what we owe the next generation of physicians.

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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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MFM / High-Risk OB

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MD, FACOG

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CodeCraftMD

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OpenMFM.org