About

Why We Built This

I became a father and a second-year family medicine resident in the same year. During my paternity leave, I wanted to stay current with the literature so I wouldn't come back feeling behind. But between a newborn and residency, keeping up with medicine in 2026 turned out to be close to impossible.

And you can imagine that reading 120-slide PowerPoints from medical school or trying to absorb a podcast through a soundtrack of tears wasn't exactly the most effective way to learn.

The usual methods didn't seem to be enough to stay up to date. Conferences cost time and money I didn't have. Podcasts cover only a fraction of what's published. Guidelines are revised every few years, if that. None of these approaches moves at the speed today's medical literature does.

So I had an idea: use AI to do the tedious first pass that no human has hours in the day for; scanning everything, discarding what doesn't matter, and surfacing what does.

I called the most ambitious and creative person I know, and we started brainstorming. Before I knew it, there was an email in my inbox every morning. We had a name (one I didn't quite like at first, so we changed it), the beginnings of a brand, and the first version of a website.

We spent weeks going back and forth, refining the product until I was satisfied enough to share it. Since then, we've been gathering feedback from residents and physicians to keep improving the platform and make it genuinely useful: filtering the flood of new literature down to what's relevant to primary care, scoring each study based on the strength of its evidence, and giving you a concise, faithful bottom line.

The goal is simple: the time you spend reading should go toward the evidence most likely to change how you care for your patients.

Where It's Headed

Morning Doc is a pilot right now, built with input from the residents and physicians testing it.

We're starting with a weekly newsletter for family medicine. If it proves useful, we'll expand to more specialties from there.

The second phase is a companion site, where you'll be able to browse literature by specialty or topic and get recommendations tailored to your practice—using the same evidence-based approach and practice-changing ratings as the newsletter.