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Friday, April 10, 2026

ChatGPT Diagnoses Rare Medical Conditon

From BBC


The power of AI to analyze data across a huge range of sources is astonishing. I have found that, in the medical field, it does work very well to provide diagnoses or predict the type of treatment a doctor may opt for, based on the symptoms and descriptions you feed into the system - and I have only used the AI tool that comes with Google Chrome. This story illustrates it. 

Also, the AI tool is able to respond to complex questions and understand them fully, by which I mean questions made up of long sentences, with sub-clauses. The handling of language is also amazing. This does not mean that the AI tool cannot make mistakes, obviously, or sometimes misinterpret a question you put to the system. 

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ChatGPT has helped to uncover a woman's rare condition after years of being misdiagnosed by doctors.
Phoebe Tesoriere, 23, claims she was told she was anxious, depressed, had epilepsy and warned she'd be treated as a mental health patient if she kept returning to A&E.
Following three days in a coma after a seizure, Phoebe, from Cardiff, put her symptoms into the AI chatbot.
It suggested a number of conditions, including hereditary spastic paraplegia, external, which Phoebe presented to her GP. Genetic testing confirmed the diagnosis.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said: "We are sorry to hear about Phoebe's experience while in our care."

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