Mike Moore, DO FAAFP

The Humblest Philosophy: Why Metaphysics Matters Consciousness, reality, and the crisis of community

It matters how we think.

An Unpopular Opinion Season two of The Pitt is airing now on HBO Max, and naturally, it’s all over my feed. I should be the target audience for this show. I…

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Dedication Stone (Early December) One month after Veterans Day, the memorial stands without ceremony. No crowds, no wreaths, only a bitter wind driving the leaves in circles around the names. “They shall not grow old”— the familiar li...

“And it's good night, my darling…”

What the Best Performers Know That Pattern Recognition Doesn't A Commentary on "Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance"

"Knowing is active…It requires presence, relationship, and accountability. It can’t be outsourced. It’s what happens when knowledge meets a human life, and someone has to decide what it means."

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Dedication Stone (Early December) One month after Veterans Day, the memorial stands without ceremony. No crowds, no wreaths, only a bitter wind driving the leaves in circles around the names. “They shall not grow old”— the familiar li...

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Mike Moore, DO FAAFP (@mikemooredo) Paper The dream won’t end where waking begins. Her nearness flickers, then the room pulls me back. In the bookstore I opened a book of poems— not printed poems, but photographs of poems t...

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Agreed.

22 Years After His Death, Warren Zevon Is Getting His Due

22 Years After His Death, Warren Zevon Is Getting His Due www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

Memoirs and Reflections: Rethinking Apprenticeship San Francisco — October 2025

Rethinking Apprenticeship: Final Thoughts from TEDAI 2025 #MedEd

Memoirs and Reflections: The Honest Ride San Francisco — October 22, 2025

“I can’t help but think about how often we curate reality for ourselves, softening the edges to preserve comfort.”

“The point is not to collapse differences but to find the common ground that unites disadvantaged populations everywhere. In that shared space, we discover empathy, perspective, and the beginnings of peace.” @aafp.org

Returning to Anaheim Two decades, two ‘uniforms,’ and the same question: What does purpose look like after the climb?

Older, but not letting the heart get colder (apologies AF)

How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future

Brilliant!

Let’s do this! #aafpfmx @aafp.org

“The truth will set you free, but not before it is finished with you.”

~David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About these Eight Things This author, who committed suicide in 2008, is more timely now than ever before—for the worst possible reasons.

Brilliant.
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Clinics not Cockpits AI in healthcare will be safest and most transformative not when it copies aviation, but when it honors medicine’s uncertainty.

AI in healthcare will be safest and most transformative not when it copies aviation, but when it honors medicine’s uncertainty.
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The Trail Ahead Mentorship, trust, and finding flow.

Reflecting on what it feels like to arrive at my dream job. Teaching, mentoring, and practicing in the rural communities I care about is significant, but not easy. I’m learning that flow doesn’t come from perfection. it comes from humility, trust, and walking the path with students and patients.

Legendary. IYKYK

Hamburger Helper Sales Rise as Americans Try to Stretch Their Food Dollars

Beware the “Hamburger Helper Index” Sales Rise as Americans Try to Stretch Their Food Dollars www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

The Limits of Language and the Edges of AI At the boundary of language, contradiction is not failure.

AI speaks fluently — but fluency isn’t understanding. At the limits of language, contradiction appears, and that’s where human judgment must guide.
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I have, but I'm more of a GlassAI fan.

I am reminded, if you'd indulge me for ruining this moment with one of my favorite #DoctorWho quotes: "Goodness is not goodness that seeks advantage. Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit - without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis."

We've Always Been Technological Humanity Across Waves of Innovation

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Taming the Centaur How do we train physicians in the use of an AI-powered Clinical Co-Pilot?

Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare, and the future is partnership, not replacement.

Out of place Fragment

A bit of poetry for you. #meded

Designing for Cognitive Economy in Pre‑Clinical Teaching Clinical reasoning feels heavy for novices because we ask them to juggle vitals, exam cues, labs, thresholds, and next steps before stable schemas exist.

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A new era, or another silo? Review of "The Algorithmic Consultant: A New Era of Clinical AI Calls for a New Workforce of Physician-Algorithm Specialists" (npj Digital Medicine, 2025)

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A False Dilemma From Chessboards to Clinic Notes: What AI History Can Teach Medicine

My Latest on Substack…

Rough draft time…