Medicine

Thoughts, essays, etc by Samuel Weisenthal

• 4/9/2026

  A consensus on causality?

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  1/3/2026

  Policies, adjustment, decisions, sharks

• 12/12/2025

  On the acceptable range of model calibration

• 12/1/2025

  GPT-5 and medical decisions

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  11/9/2025

  Decision analysis and medical research

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  8/25/2025

  Decision analysis and the pharmaceutical industry

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  7/3/2025

  Should chatbots make medical decisions?

• 6/1/2025

  Ode to an appendix

• 4/17/2025

  Variance, evidence, and the use of albumin for HRS AKI

• 4/4/2025

  Reflections on Relative Sparsity

• 3/27/2025

  Baseline serum creatinine

• 3/20/2025

  Propensity vs. outcome model

• 3/19/2025

  Inverse probability weighting as change of measure

• 3/2/2025

  Patient-specific statistics are key

• 2/16/2025

  Standard deviation of a lab value

• 2/2/2025

  Mini-differential Step 2 study game

• 9/29/2024

  Terminology matters

• 5/25/2024

  Read (questions) around your patients

• 5/10/2024

  Cutoffs and supplemental oxygen

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  4/12/2024

  Relative sparsity poster

• 3/17/2024

  A graphical view of test characteristics

• 3/3/2024

  Test characteristics are probabilities!

• 2/25/2024

  The value of interpretability

• 2/18/2024

  Wonderful search engine for rare genetic syndromes

• 11/26/2023

  ChatGPT, reasoning, and medical diagnosis

• 11/12/2023

  PPV and risk calculators

• 10/29/2023

  Utility before probability

• 10/22/2023

  Probability is more intuitive

• 10/1/2023

  Learn the language

• 9/10/2023

  Model biomarkers directly

• 9/6/2023

  Lay abstract for relative sparsity!

• 8/20/2023

  Ideal estimand for a trial

• 7/30/2023

  Bleeding vs. clotting

• 7/16/2023

  The added utility from ordering a test

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  6/20/2023

  Relative sparsity for medical decision problems

• 5/21/2023

  The counterfactual must be recorded

• 5/14/2023

  Responsibilities and protection associated with decision analysis

• 3/19/2023

  Difficulties with decision analysis

• 3/5/2023

  Seven steps to formalizing medical decisions

• 2/26/2023

  Importance sampling, inverse probability weighting, and off-policy reinforcement learning

• 2/12/2023

  Reinforcement learning in medicine

• 5/25/2022

  ACIC 2022

• 3/6/2022

  Per-decision importance sampling

• 1/23/2022

  Covid-19 tests, the interpretation trap