Doctors Who Code

Where medicine meets technology. Empowering physicians to build tools that transform healthcare.

Hi, I'm Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije

A maternal-fetal medicine specialist with over 30 years of experience, combining clinical expertise with software development to create AI-powered tools for healthcare.

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Vibe Coding for Clinicians: How I Built a Medical App in One Weekend
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Vibe Coding for Clinicians: How I Built a Medical App in One Weekend

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 […]

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A Weekend Project for Clinicians: Building an HTML Slide Repository for Maternal–Fetal Medicine
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A Weekend Project for Clinicians: Building an HTML Slide Repository for Maternal–Fetal Medicine

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 […]

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Stop Searching “How to Code Like a Software Engineer”: A New Path for Physician-Developers
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Stop Searching “How to Code Like a Software Engineer”: A New Path for Physician-Developers

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. […]

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How Doctors Learn to Code in 2026: Why the New Path Beats Tutorials, Bootcamps, and YouTube Overload
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How Doctors Learn to Code in 2026: Why the New Path Beats Tutorials, Bootcamps, and YouTube Overload

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 […]

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AI Scribes Are Failing Doctors—Here’s the Brutal Truth the NEJM Won’t Say Out Loud
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AI Scribes Are Failing Doctors—Here’s the Brutal Truth the NEJM Won’t Say Out Loud

“Why Your AI Scribe Isn’t Saving You Time (And What Will)” By Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije, MFM Specialist & Founder of CodeCraftMD Reading time: 8 minutes Every healthcare tech vendor promises the same thing: “Our AI will give you back hours of your day.” But after two major randomized controlled trials and millions in implementation costs, […]

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The Disappearing Note: How Automation Is Rewriting Clinical Documentation
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The Disappearing Note: How Automation Is Rewriting Clinical Documentation

By Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije | Maternal–Fetal MedicineFounder, CodeCraftMD and Doctors Who Code Introduction: The Note Is Vanishing Before Our Eyes For over a century, the medical note has been the primary artifact of clinical reasoning. It is the record, the legal document, the billable asset, the clinician’s cognitive trail. But in the last five years, […]

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The Bot Manager Fallacy in Healthcare

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The Future of Clinical Documentation: A Practical AI Tech Stack for Physicians Who Code
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The Future of Clinical Documentation: A Practical AI Tech Stack for Physicians Who Code

A Hands-On Guide to Building an AI-Powered Clinical Workflow With Ambient Transcription, EvidenceMD, and CodeCraftMD 📋 Table of Contents 🚀 The Complete AI-Enhanced Clinical Pipeline Ambient → EvidenceMD → CodeCraftMD → EMR Integration By Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije, MFM Specialist & Founder, Doctors Who Code 🎯 Introduction: Why Clinicians Need an AI Workflow, Not Another Search […]

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The Algorithm Said Yes. The Patient’s Eyes Said No.
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The Algorithm Said Yes. The Patient’s Eyes Said No.

Why clinical intuition still matters in the age of AI medicine Author: Dr. Chukwuma OnyeijePublished: November 2025Reading Time: 6 minutesTags: #ClinicalIntuition #AIinMedicine #HealthcareTechnology #MedicalDecisionMaking #DigitalHealth Meta Description When algorithms and clinical intuition clash, who do you trust? A physician-programmer shares the moment data pointed one way—and instinct saved a life. Discover why medicine can’t be […]

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What Should Be the Response for “Doctors Who Code” and Humanity’s Next Medical Exam
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What Should Be the Response for “Doctors Who Code” and Humanity’s Next Medical Exam

In their NEJM AI editorial, Gallifant and Bitterman remind us that only 40% of a physician’s shift is spent in direct patient contact. The rest — the invisible 60% — disappears into bureaucracy, fragmented data, coordination loops, and the friction of misaligned incentives. For those of us building or coding in medicine, that statistic should […]

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Voice, Vision, and the Doctor in the Loop
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Voice, Vision, and the Doctor in the Loop

Progress by Abstraction series for Doctors Who Code Part 3 The Next Abstraction in Healthcare “At the highest level of abstraction are visual and audio interfaces… the demarcation between technical and non-technical professionals is breaking down.” — Sean McClure, Discovered Not Designed 🌍 The Rise of Invisible Interfaces There was a time when the frontier […]

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🧠 From Machine Code to Medical Code
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🧠 From Machine Code to Medical Code

Progress by Abstraction series for Doctors Who Code Part 2 How Abstraction Shapes Clinical Reasoning and AI in Healthcare “Each generation begins not from zero, but from the highest abstraction level achieved by the previous one.” — Sean McClure, Discovered Not Designed ⚙️ The Evolution of Code — From Binary to Meaning In the beginning, […]

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