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Todd Ponsky, MD Chief Innovation Officer
Cincinnati Childrens Hospital
Professor of Surgery: Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery
Professor, University of Cincinnati

27/11/2025

Back by popular demand — the AI Workshop is returning to the Vail Pediatric Surgery Conference in Vail, CO!

If you missed it in October (or want more), this session walks through the exact AI tools you can use to save time, streamline workflows, and make clinical life easier.
Attend in person at The Hythe or join virtually from anywhere.

If you want weekly AI tips, tutorials, and the behind-the-scenes workflows you can use every day…
➡️ Make sure you’re subscribed to my Substack. It’s the best way to stay updated long after the conference ends.

Subscribe to my Substack: https://toddponsky.substack.com/

Register for the workshop: https://gcmd.co/AICourseVail

27/11/2025

People keep asking me why a surgeon is obsessed with Vibe Coding. Simple: it’s just like magic.

You can type naturally — the same way you talk to ChatGPT — and it builds a website, an app, or a digital tool for you. No dev team, no long timelines.

A year ago this didn’t exist. Today, I can solve problems at the hospital, at work, or at home in hours. And with new releases like Google’s Anti-Gravity, it’s only getting better from here.

25/11/2025

Group chats in ChatGPT let you bring friends, roommates, or coworkers together — and add ChatGPT to help plan trips, design a backyard, pick art, or summarize shared research.

Start one by tapping the people icon, share a link (1–20 people), and set custom instructions so the AI responds with the right tone; ChatGPT runs on GPT-5.1 Auto, supports image/file uploads, and even reacts with emojis.

25/11/2025

If you’ve ever been stuck trying to figure out how to do something on your phone or computer, Google Gemini has a new feature that’s genuinely amazing.
You can now turn on video guidance and screen-share—Gemini will watch what you’re doing and talk you through the steps in real time.

I tested it by building an idea-capture shortcut, and it guided me exactly like a person would.
This is going to help a lot of people.

21/11/2025

If you rely on Apple Reminders, this new feature is huge.
You can now mark a reminder as urgent, and instead of a tiny notification that’s easy to miss, your iPhone will ring an actual alarm at the exact time you set.
This is one of the most useful updates Apple has shipped in a while. 🔔

18/11/2025

I’ve been experimenting with Claude Skills, Custom GPTs, and ChatGPT Projects, and wow—each one works differently.
Custom GPTs are great for repeatable tasks, Projects keep all your past outputs organized, and Claude Skills act more like background knowledge the model pulls in when needed.
I still can’t say which is “best,” but I’m using both because they each shine in different situations.

18/11/2025

Did you know your Apple HomePod has a safety feature that could actually save your life?
It listens for fire alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, and if something goes wrong, it sends an alert straight to your phone.
Such a simple feature, but incredibly powerful. 🚨

14/11/2025

I finally found a perfect example of when to use Claude vs. ChatGPT. I dictated a long narrative about my company and asked ChatGPT to summarize it. It followed instructions perfectly and produced a clean story. Claude, on the other hand, pushed back, literally! It told me what I couldn’t claim, what didn’t make sense, and how to reframe things. It felt less like a tool and more like a smart colleague.

ChatGPT = executes.
Claude = challenges.
Both are amazing in different ways.

12/11/2025

“Wouldn’t it be cool if…” is how great ideas start — but too often, that’s where they end.
Next time you say it, take 10 minutes and look into what it would take to actually do it.
Don’t wait for someone else to make it happen.

12/11/2025

“Don’t let the arrow hit you twice.” 🏹

I love this quote because it perfectly describes what anxiety feels like. The first arrow is what happens — the bad news, the mistake, the stressful situation. The second arrow is what we do to ourselves afterward — the worrying, replaying, and beating ourselves up.

We can’t always control the first arrow, but we can stop firing the second. Breathe. Let it pass. 💭💫

10/11/2025

Okay, I admit it — I overcomplicated this one 😅 I made a shortcut to paste ChatGPT responses into emails without that odd font… then learned there’s a built-in fix: just click Paste → Match Style! Sometimes the smartest trick is the simplest one.

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