Palpate: Health AI

Would you pay for a monthly subscription to better health literacy? Eek.

Tiered AI access may become a health equity issue.

Jun 18 • Joshua W Pate

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Cognitive Surrender in Health AI: When AI gets good enough that people stop checking

If AI agents start carrying out healthcare tasks, who checks which step?

Jun 4 • Joshua W Pate

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April 2026

Healthcare probably needs imperfect AI policy sooner than perfect AI policy later

What 30 unanswered questions revealed about healthcare’s AI moment

Apr 28 • Joshua W Pate

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Notice. Play. Adopt.

How to stay thoughtfully engaged with health AI without losing your mind / clinical judgement

Apr 20 • Joshua W Pate

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Turning a news story into an interactive module

What survived the trip from article to app

Apr 8 • Joshua W Pate

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March 2026

Why AI gets the “best exercise for chronic back pain” question wrong

The difference between helpful-sounding and helpful.

Mar 22 • Joshua W Pate

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Arriving with AI-framed stories about pain

When AI gets to the pain story first

Mar 9 • Joshua W Pate

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February 2026

Feedback wanted: What should this interactive pain science app do next?

A strengths-based pathway tool for kids + parents, built with Claude and Codex. I’d love your ruthless feedback.

Feb 23 • Joshua W Pate

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Build as you think

Health app development just became radically easy

Feb 16 • Joshua W Pate

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“What did your earpiece just say?”

A thought experiment about AI in children's healthcare, and where humans still matter

Feb 9 • Joshua W Pate

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Any software, on-demand

Why AI agents mean we can finally stop letting clinical ideas die in our Notes app.

Feb 2 • Joshua W Pate

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January 2026

LockPoints: Vibecoding a social accountability app to address phone addiction

From a shower thought... to a working prototype in one conversation

Jan 30 • Joshua W Pate

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