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Writing on healthtech, founders and human performance

Essays and practical notes on clinical innovation, healthtech adoption, founder decision-making and what actually makes demanding work sustainable.

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From surviving to thriving

The piece that explains where the health writing comes from: a doctor who felt like an old man in his early thirties, what conventional testing missed, and what changed. Personal, practical and free of wellness noise.

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Healthtech & AI

Strategic essays on healthcare AI adoption, clinical credibility and building products that clinicians use and systems buy.

Healthcare AI adoption is an operating problem

The models are good enough. The constraint has moved to workflows, accountability and economics.

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Founder Notes

Shorter, tactical reflections on validation, commercialisation and the mistakes clinician founders make early, drawn from mentoring hundreds of founders. The MedTech Mentor blog has the step-by-step founder guides.

Clinical insight is not a business model

What clinical insight actually buys a founder, and the commercial questions it cannot answer.

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Human Performance

Health, habits and performance for people doing demanding work. Tried and Tested is the running series: I try things on myself for long enough to have an opinion, then write up what happened and what the evidence says, separately.

Five ways to get better sleep

Fix sleep and most things get easier. Five practical levers.

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The downstairs dock

One small habit change that protects both sleep and mornings.

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Get started with the Core Food Plan

Food first: add the good and crowd out the rest.

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Root causes and testing

Pieces that lean on functional medicine as a framework for thinking about root causes rather than symptoms. Educational, not clinical.

The functional medicine matrix

A map for making sense of symptoms that seem unconnected.

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Food reactions explained

Allergy, intolerance and sensitivity: what’s actually happening.

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Your symptom self-check

A simple baseline tool for deciding which lever to pull first.

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