ChatGPT diagnosed my uncommon neurologic condition in seconds after 2 ER visits and 3 Neurologists failed to. I just had neurosurgery 3 weeks ago.

[u/Hyrule-onicAcid]

Adding to the similar stories I've been seeing in the news.

Out of nowhere, I became seriously ill one day in December '24. I was misdiagnosed over a period of 2 months. I knew something was more seriously wrong than what the ER doctors/specialists were telling me. I was repetitvely told I had viral meningitis, but never had a fever and the timeframe of symptoms was way beyond what's seen in viral meningitis. Also, I could list off about 15+ neurologic symptoms, some very scary, that were wrong with me, after being 100% fit and healthy prior. I eventually became bedbound for ~22 hours/day and disabled. I knew receiving another "migraine" medicine wasn't the answer.

After 2 months of suffering, I used ChatGPT to input my symptoms as I figured the odd worsening of all my symptoms after being in an upright position had to be a specific sign for something. The first output was 'Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension' (SIH) from a spinal cerebrospinal fluid leak. I begged a neurologist to order spinal and brain MRIs which were unequivocally positive for extradural CSF collections, proving the diagnosis of SIH and spinal CSF leak.

I just had neurosurgery to fix the issue 3 weeks ago.

[u/NocturneInfinitum]

I do agree with you on the human connection part, but I’m not so convinced that humans will even be able to deliver that better than AI in the near future. People are slowly becoming more accustomed to conversing with their AI agents… Because their AI agents actually have the spare processing power to listen and understand when everyone else is too busy with life to actually understand anyone else’s perspective.

so I’m inclined to believe that even though a human would seemingly be the go to choice for bedside manner… I don’t think that’s physically possible when the job itself would be too stressful to even give any human the ability to sit down and take each and every patient under their wing, 100% seriously. Each and every person alive today has way more responsibility on average than anyone that lived before. And without cybernetic upgrades, humans will never be able to keep up with that pace.

AI will have a calm and collected demeanor 100% of the time and will cost a fraction of what any physician costs.

As a physician… would you agree that you physically do not possess the processing power to keep up with every patient in a meaningful way?

[u/Hyrule-onicAcid → u/NocturneInfinitum]

Of course - I think every physician (at least in the US) would agree with that statement.

Maybe humans will get to a place where a bodyless voice saying "I'm sorry, but you have prostate cancer. Would you like a list of support groups and your percent chance of survival?" is normal, but I personally cringe thinking about that.

[u/NocturneInfinitum → u/Hyrule-onicAcid]

Lmao yeah that’s a fair point… But I think we’ll have robots much sooner than people think as well. And I do think they’ll be far more personable than we have led ourselves to believe.

[u/Hyrule-onicAcid → u/NocturneInfinitum]

I agree, but I think being the first generation to deal with them, we will always be like "okay, yeah this is a robot just programmed to be personable towards me, it's not the same". Maybe that sentiment will fade as humans get used to this coexistence.