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epicEHRsucks | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

Willing to relocate: Anywhere in US

Technologies: Full Stack, Python, Django, React, Typescript

Résumé/CV: darshankalola.com

Email: <firstname>v<lastname>@gmail.com

Hi everyone! My name is Darshan Kalola — and I am a soon-to-be medical doctor who codes. I have a BS in computer science, earned my MPH from Harvard, and will have finished my MD next month. I interned as a software engineer on Google's Healthcare AI team, at YouTube, and at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I’ve also worked on several startups and side projects, which are documented in my portfolio at darshankalola.com.

I'm seeking a full-time software engineering, product, or Chief of Staff role starting in February 2025, ideally at a healthtech or biotech company.

epicEHRsucks | 2 years ago | on: Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials

There unfortunately are too many perverse incentives that encourage fraudulent studies. Everyone should take findings "established in the literature" with a grain of salt. We should also incorporate more intuition and first-principles reasoning, i.e. obesity is a harmful state for humans even if 100 RCTs proved otherwise.

epicEHRsucks | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

First off, your website and app are aesthetically breathtaking. You have a real talent with design.

I have not used the breathing app, so ultimately there may be some context to which I am unware, however, my first thought when hearing the description of the App is why? Why do we as technologists insist on making things more complicated? Breathing is as old as life, and though I concede that there can be tremendous depth to the study of breathing, particular in relation to disciplines such as singing, meditation, anxiety, couldn't you more effectively teach someone a technique by simply informing them rather than making an app to accomplish that same goal?

I apologize if in any way this feels as if I am criticizing your creative work. I am a software engineer and medical student and I appreciate when the two fields collide. I also never want to put any creative work down because I understand the effort and risk one takes when doing anything of the sort.