What I Was Trying to Build
What I actually wanted to build was bigger than this. In fact, much bigger. Here was the daydream. A doctor on a night shift, no signal in the hospital basement, pulls out her phone and asks it whether two drugs are safe together. It answers instantly and offline, with the FDA citation sitting right there. She squints. “Huh,” she says. “That is better than the thing we pay six hundred dollars a year for.” A pharmacist tells another pharmacist. Someone on a medical forum posts that it is the first one of these that does not just make things up. In my head I had already gotten the email from hospital procurement, and turned it down for being too generous. ...
