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This is the literary side of the site: essays, satire, fiction, sketches, and reflections on technology, illness, corruption, society, and ordinary life in Calcutta. The writing is personal, analytical, sometimes comic, sometimes dark, and intentionally human.

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Healthcare-IT

Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI

An exploration of why human-written, skeptical, and curiosity-driven healthcare IT commentary remains indispensable in an era of AI-generated noise, marketing jargon, and technological conceit.

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Confounding Factors: The Invisible Architect of False Truths

A technical and philosophical exploration of how confounding factors infiltrate healthcare IT, clinical analytics, and population health systems, corrupting conclusions long before they reach any dashboard or model.

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How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL

A technical explanation of how Veterans Affairs healthcare data moves from VistA's MUMPS and FileMan world into SQL warehouses, and why that translation is never merely a database conversion.

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FHIR: The Universal Language of Health Data

A deep dive into FHIR, the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard that is quietly rebuilding the plumbing of modern medicine—one resource at a time.

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The Architecture of Shadows: What We Must Build Before We Let AI Into the Hospital

A deep exploration of the invisible infrastructure—regulatory, ethical, technical, and human—that must exist before artificial intelligence can safely enter clinical practice, and why the real revolution happens in the shadows before the spotlight.

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The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare

Healthcare does not wait for a dramatic philosopher with a lever. It quietly moves risk through queues, dashboards, alerts, codes, claims, models, and policies until moral choice looks like normal workflow.