Healthcare on Worldwide Stew

How an AI Conversation Taught Me About Caring for Patients

worldwide@worldwidestew.com (Michael Davis) — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:33:19 +0000

I’ve been using Claude.ai (an AI by Anthropic) as a thinking partner for a couple of years now. I’m transparent about this collaboration in my work, partly because arthritis makes extended typing difficult, but more importantly because something genuinely interesting emerges in our conversations that I couldn’t access alone.

Yesterday, we were discussing Schrödinger’s cat, and Claude offered an insight that stopped me in my tracks.

You probably know the physics thought experiment: a cat in a sealed box exists in quantum superposition—simultaneously alive and dead—until someone opens the box and observes. The observation itself collapses the wave function, forcing reality to choose one outcome.

The last thing they say before they leave

worldwide@worldwidestew.com (Michael Davis) — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:10:00 +0000

Too often, people wait until the very last second to say what they wanted, intended, and should have said the first thing.

Deep Dive: AI, sleep, medical errors, Zionism, peace, and Passover

worldwide@worldwidestew.com (Michael Davis) — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Nurses protest use of AI; the importance of personal and cultural reconsideration on the importance of sleep; prosecution of medical errors; and Zionism and the Passover.

Deep Dive: phone addictions; private equity and hospitals

worldwide@worldwidestew.com (Michael Davis) — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This week’s featured articles

From Harvard Business Review. Do you have a phone addiction? - uhh, probably. Now, do something about it.
What happens when hospitals aren’t appropriately funded? They often turn to funding from Private Equity firms. What happens then? It’s not good and costs patients and society. Read this article from Harvard.

Deep Dive: A questionable iOS feature; US Disease Burden from plastics; interesting recent articles

worldwide@worldwidestew.com (Michael Davis) — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A review of news I find interesting. 1. An iOS feature you might want to fix. 2. It’s taken a long time for plastics to create what many believe will create significant human disease burden. That ship has gathered substantial steam. 3. Possiblle harms related to mindfulness (if your going to be in a mindfulness group, make sure the leader is qualified). 4. Watch out for marketing using neuro: they may be trying to get into your head. 5. A compassion therapy that can boost expansiveness? That just blows my mind (if it turns out to be good research).

Travel, health, and generations with Anthony Nguyen

worldwide@worldwidestew.com (Michael Davis) — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this first interview epidode of the Worldwide Stew podcast, I interviewed my friend, Anthony Nguyen, BSN, RN. He talks about travel (joys and travails), children, aging, the elderly, how to look at travel, and the role of chaaplains in acute pain.