I’m J. Travis Mendel, MD. Radiation oncologist. Medical Director at Rio Grande Cancer Specialists and Rio Grande Urology in El Paso, TX.

Who this is for:

Written for physicians. Also for administrators, healthcare workers, and anyone who does not have time to keep up with the tools. What you get is a monthly read on using AI without handing over the judgment.

Where to start:

Automate the work. Keep the judgment: the rule before a tool touches a patient or a chart.

OpenEvidence: use it like a search, not like a consult: how to use the app you already have open.

Outside the clinic:

I also write about the agents I actually build and run for personal work. The inbox, the calendar, knowledge, and the rest of a life that is not a chart. This side is for people who wish the day had 36 hours instead of 24.

The rule is a wall. Those agents and the clinic do not share data, tools, or memory. That is how you keep PHI out of a home system.