Resources from Carte.
The guides we use ourselves with clients, and the essays we write about how good medical decisions get made.
The Medical Decision Roadmap
Seven questions to ask before agreeing to any major medical procedure, treatment, or specialist referral.
For Anyone facing a major medical decision who wants a structured way to pressure-test the recommendations they’ve been given.
Read the Roadmap → 02 / GuideThe Health Hierarchy
A finance-style framework for anyone whose health efforts are not paying off the way they should.
For Motivated adults whose health efforts aren’t compounding and who want to know what would change that without taking over their life.
Read the Hierarchy → 03 / GuideThe Coordination Blueprint
Eight steps families need covered when managing complex medical care for a loved one.
For Family caregivers who have become the de facto health manager and want a system, not another lecture.
Read the Blueprint →The work in practice.
Detailed case files describing how specific Carte engagements have unfolded, from first call to outcome. Published with client consent and clinical details redacted.
Case file · Richard · Stewardship
Two recommended surgeries. Neither one held up.
His surgeons had both defaulted to the operating room. Three years later, he's averted both surgeries and is stronger than ever.
Read the full case →Case file · Misha · MD Directorate
From pain that kept her up all night to dancing at a wedding.
18 doctors. No answers. Here is how we finally helped her get her life back.
Read the full case →Essays on how good medical decisions get made.
Ongoing essays at The Physician Advisor, and selected pieces from earlier in Dr. Siddiqui’s career.
From The Physician AdvisorWe know our financial sources of bleeding better than what’s wrecking our health
Big unresolved questions are like credit card debt for your health.
Read on Substack →The way to level up your healthcare may not be what you think
Healthcare fails because of a problem that may not be on your radar.
Read on Substack →What is a physician advisor?
When a company faces a complex challenge, they don’t throw five consultants at it independently and hope for the best.
Read on Substack →Selected published writing
On medicine, new tools, and what physicians see that algorithms can’t. Written before LLMs.
A night-shift diary from the emergency room, and what its patients make visible — that the most serious failures in modern medicine live in the gap between the hospital and the home, and that nobody currently owns the work of closing it.
A memoir of a first patient — labeled “difficult” by his clinic, kept alive by the same qualities.
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