MD and CS
I'm currently in medical school and picking up CS through online courses and personal projects. I was wondering if anyone can provide examples of how a background in CS/programming has played a part in his/her medical careers.
PCP/patient interaction - WhatsApp Doc, a iOS app that is based off books/resources like this: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=13... that help patients plan their apt. with specialists/PCP ahead of time.
Pharmakinetics - More for pharmacists but apps that store drug information for different drug regimen that the patient is on and figure out if there's a bad interaction.
Health Informatics - More in hospital and clinic settings. Electronic medical records.
Personal Genomics - 23andme as a consumer startup; but data mining and analysis based on either SNP or more available in the future, whole genome sequencing for a person ($3000 and declining)
Retail Medical Devices - Tracking devices for diabetics that is linked up to their mobile devices, etc.
http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/11/110281/harnessing-power-pre...
I know you asked specifically for examples from people who used CS in a medical career (rather than general advice), so I do apologize for not really answering your question and giving general advice. But you might want to look into data science. Coursera had a good data science course that will probably be repeated - it didn't have anything specifically about medicine, but you would get introduced to Python in a data science context. My guess is that you'd be able to use your domain knowledge in Medicine to take this in an interesting direction.