OMER ATLI
I write about the clinical reality behind modern medicine — emergency care, healthcare AI, digital health, and patient safety.
When patients ask AI before they reach the ED
What I write about
Healthcare AI
On scribes, co-pilots, hallucinations, and the gap between healthcare AI marketing and clinical workflow.
Explore →Emergency Medicine Thinking
On uncertainty, pattern recognition, and what frontline medicine teaches about risk.
Explore →Clinical Safety & Digital Health
On telemedicine governance, prescribing risk, and what safety thinking should actually look like in healthtech.
Explore →Medical Writing & Evidence
On reading papers, appraising claims, and writing clearly about complicated science.
Explore →Future of Medicine
On where the profession is heading — AI reordering the workflow, the return of the generalist, and what the job becomes.
Explore →Selected Writing
AI Scribes Are Not the Endgame
AI scribes solve a real documentation problem. But calling them co-pilots confuses transcription with clinical reasoning — and the gap matters.
Why Doctors Need to Understand AI (Before AI Reorders the Profession)
AI now operates on clinical language and reasoning, and the defaults are being set now — understanding it is how doctors get to set the terms instead of inheriting them.
The Emergency Department Test for Any Medical AI Tool
A five-question test for medical AI: how it handles noise, missing data, interruption, the unselected tail, and who answers when it's wrong.
Popular Medical Reads
Wegovy vs Mounjaro in the UK: What NICE Actually Approved
Dr Omer Atli, GMC-registered physician, explains what Wegovy and Mounjaro actually are and what NICE recommended in the UK — an educational difference-explainer, not a comparison.
Mounjaro and Wegovy Hair Loss: Why It Happens, and Whether It Recovers
Dr Omer Atli, GMC-registered physician, on why hair sheds on Mounjaro and Wegovy, the two-to-three-month lag, and whether it grows back.
Does Creatine Cause Hair Loss? The Single Study Behind the Scare
Dr Omer Atli, GMC-registered physician, on the single 2009 study behind the creatine hair-loss scare — what it measured, what it didn't, and the honest bottom line.