Evidence, Animated
Clinical evidence you can watch in a minute. Every number sourced.
Why evidence needs help
Evidence is the foundation of good care, yet it often does not reach the patient. In a national study of 12 US metropolitan areas, adults received 54.9% of recommended care [1]. A companion study found that children received 46.5% of indicated care [2]. Both studies are two decades old, but they measured what still matters: the distance between what the evidence recommends and what patients receive.
Evidence that sits unread in a journal helps nobody. Each film here takes one clinical question and shows what the data say, in about a minute, with the source for every number on screen.
How I make them with Claude
I choose the question and the sources. Claude, Anthropic's AI model, drafts the storyboard and writes each film as code: every chart, trace and caption is drawn by software and cut to a musical beat. There is no stock footage and no AI-generated video.
Before anything appears on screen, every reference is checked against PubMed or the primary document, and every number is traced to its source. I review each scene and decide what stays. Curves labeled "schematic" are teaching illustrations; everything else comes from the cited publications.
One team, two languages: why US fetal monitoring needs one shared language
Nurses and obstetric clinicians read the same tracing in different words. What the 2025 US guideline defines and omits, the Mars Climate Orbiter parallel, the Joint Commission root-cause data, and one team speaking one language.
29 September 2026
Maternal deaths in the US: how many, when, why, and the word “preventable”
How many US women die of maternal causes, why US and European definitions differ, the leading causes, deaths after the first postpartum week, homicide and suicide, and what the CDC means by preventable.
29 September 2026
Vaginal misoprostol: when contractions outrun fetal oxygen
What misoprostol is, why it is used off label to induce labor, how tachysystole lowers fetal oxygen, the FDA label and boxed warning, and why informed consent comes first.
28 September 2026- McGlynn EA, Asch SM, Adams J, Keesey J, Hicks J, DeCristofaro A, et al. The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2003;348(26):2635-45. doi:10.1056/NEJMsa022615
- Mangione-Smith R, DeCristofaro AH, Setodji CM, Keesey J, Klein DJ, Adams JL, et al. The quality of ambulatory care delivered to children in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2007;357(15):1515-23. doi:10.1056/NEJMsa064637