by Bryan Vartabedian, MD
The Liminal MD is a podcast about medicine in the middle of a structural rewrite. Hosted by physician Bryan Vartabedian, it explores the technological, cultural, and economic forces reshaping clinical work—and what they mean for doctors living inside the transition. A production of Virion Media, LLC. (The Liminal MD was formally Freerange MD)
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April 8, 2026
Every physician knows the feeling of opening the electronic health record and finding a note that's beautifully structured with every box checked but somehow says almost nothing about what's actually wrong with the patient. This is not an accident. It's the result of decades of design choices, most of them not made by doctors but rather billing departments and compliance offices. In this episode I talk with Dr. Craig Joseph, an informaticist and consultant at Nordic Global Consulting, about the chart — what it was supposed to be, what it became, and whether the arrival of ambient AI gives us a genuine second chance to finally make the clinical note right. Relevant links: Dr. Joseph's LinkedIn essay. Designing for Health, Dr. Joseph's podcast. Nordic Global Consulting. Subscribe to the Liminal MD newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Liminal MD is a podcast about medicine in the middle of a structural rewrite. Hosted by physician Bryan Vartabedian, it explores the technological, cultural, and economic forces reshaping clinical work—and what they mean for doctors living inside the transition.
A production of Virion Media, LLC.
(The Liminal MD was formally Freerange MD)
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