Implementation Notes
Practical notes from building, testing, and evaluating clinical RAG workflows, medical PDF pipelines, retrieval quality, and citation-grounded AI systems.
What I Learned from Building a Medical PDF RAG Workflow
Real-world lessons from building a clinical RAG system that ingests medical PDFs — what went wrong, what worked, and what I would do differently.
Why Scanned Medical PDFs Break Many RAG Pipelines
A deep dive into why OCR-dependent medical documents cause RAG failures — drug name errors, table destruction, and what to do about it.
RAGFlow vs Cloud Knowledge Bases for Medical Documents
A practical comparison of self-hosted RAGFlow versus cloud knowledge base services for handling clinical documents — when each makes sense.
How to Evaluate Whether a Retrieved Citation Actually Supports the Answer
A practical approach to evaluating whether RAG citations are accurate, relevant, and sufficient — not just present.
Why Clinical RAG Needs Safety Checklists, Not Just Better Prompts
Prompt engineering alone is insufficient for clinical RAG safety. Here's why systematic safety checklists are essential.