Everything Daniel Nadler said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Nadler: OpenEvidence is used daily by 40% of US doctors
“We're used by 40% of doctors in the United States daily on average. It's about 20 times as much usage as the next thing that could be described as a clinical decision support platform.”
Nadler: Psychoanalyzing the trauma behind your motivation destroys your propulsion system
“I mean, I think there's a lot of truth to that except you don't want to go too close to that stuff because you'll actually kill the propulsion system in analyzing it.”
Nadler: Elite founders succeed through will to power, not rationalism
“I don't think if you build it, they will come is true. And nor would I say that, you know, Apple or Steve Jobs is a story if, that if you build it, they will come. To me, you know, Apple or Steve Jobs is a story that if you have extraordinary will to power And…”
Nadler: OpenEvidence is probably the only AI company in high-stakes clinical decisions
“We're probably the only company working at the tip of that spear. Most people have self-selected themselves out of the problem of high stakes, clinical decision-making certainly through an AI lens because they view it as ambitious.”
Nadler: Medical error is the third leading cause of US deaths
“It's well known, and it's been often repeated, that medical error is a third leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease and cancer.”
Nadler: OpenEvidence is NEJM's largest traffic referrer after Google
“You know, I think we're one of the largest sources of referral traffic to the England Journal of Medicine after Google. The rankings, I don't know if they're number two or three or four, but we're one of the largest sources of referral traffic to our partner i…”
Nadler: OpenEvidence is a consumer company, not a healthcare company
“Open Evidence is not a healthcare company. I wanted to build a consumer in a company, but I wanted to do something that no one had ever done before, which is treat knowledge workers like consumers.”
Nadler: Top hospital CEOs and chief medical officers use OpenEvidence personally
“So the entire, you know, the, this whole senior leadership of UCSF, of MGH, of Mayo Clinic, of Cleveland Clinic, of New York Presbyterian Mount Sinai, Cedars-Sinai, you know, right up to the chief medical officers, the chief physicians, and the CEOs in many ca…”
Nadler: Unmediated patient access to clinical trials rarely aids constructive decisions
“A patient simply finding some clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, because it was mentioned on CNN or Fox News, and then going and trying to read it, especially through the lens of fear or hope, Is not necessarily going to result in…”
Nadler: Human Doctors Will Remain in the Loop for Our Lifetimes
“I think they're going to be in the loop for a very, very, very long time, and for the rest of our lifetimes, if not longer.”
Nadler: Golden age of biotech is the dark ages of physician burnout
“The sort of golden age of biotechnology is sort of the dark ages of physician burnout, because it's just impossible to keep up with all the new drugs and all the new mechanisms of action and so on.”
Nadler: Non-fatal medical errors outnumber fatal errors 10x to 100x
“As many people died from medical error, probably a factor of 10 to a hundred as many people had a comorbidity or condition that became aggravated and got worse and so on.”
Nadler: OpenEvidence used AI citations months before ChatGPT
“We were actually providing references and, Citations six months or nine months before ChatGPT started doing that.”
Nadler: Humans require personification to trust critical automated systems
“That is a attribute of human psychology that we are anthropologically tribal and we don't abstract trust well. We personify trust and we trust things that we personify and anthropomorphize.”
Nadler: Medical knowledge doubled every 50 years in 1950, 73 days today
“The rate of doubling of medical knowledge as measured by citations in 1950 was every 50 years. So every 50 years the number of total citations of peer-reviewed medical literature doubled. Today it's every 73 days by an estimate in the British Medical Journal a…”
Nadler: Continuing Education Will Become the Majority of Medical Training
“That is going to more or less invert, where the continuing medical education is going to be the majority of your medical education.”
Nadler: OpenEvidence is used by physicians in every US zip code
“We have physicians using open evidence in, in every state electoral county and zip code in the United States, including rural Alaska and southwestern Georgia.”
Nadler: AI tools will bridge specialist medical care gaps in rural US
“I think increasingly, certainly in rural areas and healthcare deserts at the fringes and edges of healthcare in the United States. That's absolutely how certainly open evidence is being used and how I think broadly is going to be used at least to sort of bridg…”
Nadler: Treating enterprise users as consumers accelerates adoption across skeptical industries
“While medicine is obviously very specific, the human psychology is not. And everything that was true and that we've seen through the sort of hyper pace consumer internet growth curve adoption by the most traditionally skeptical knowledge workers shows that in …”
Nadler: The idea for OpenEvidence is completely obvious, not uniquely creative
“But you need to find this sort of perfect storm of things, and it has very little to do with ideas. You know, the idea for open evidence is the most obvious idea in the world. It's the same as, it's no more creative than let's go to the moon. Let's do somethin…”
Nadler: Extreme intelligence only moderately correlates with high output
“There is a, there's only a moderate correlate. There's like a .65 correlation between frequently smart and output.”
Nadler: OpenEvidence frequently generates patient handouts and insurance appeal letters
“Encourage physicians to use open evidence to generate patient handouts, and that's actually a very widely used secondary. It's mainly clinical report, but we have all these secondary use cases like prior authorization letters and insurance appeal letters, and …”