My step mom was having debilitating pain. A year of going to doctors and no one was able to find a cause. I scanned her discharge paper work which had her prescriptions on it and gave it to Claude. It identified a prescription that had that exact side effect. They later confronted her primary care that concurred and took her off it.
A friend of mine's wife recently passed. They were chasing a suspected heart defect for over a year. She had been intermittently fainting. At about the year mark they decided to scope her digestive track. They found bleeding ulcers from cancer that was all over her body. I input her fainting symptoms into Claude and gastro impact was number two suspected after heart issues.
I have a few of other cases it's helped with. I'm not sure it could do worse than my own experience with the medical system. This is doubly true in places that lack any sort of medical care.
My mom had cancer and she was on regular, suppressive chemotherapy. I put her info into an AI and it correctly noted that her chemotherapy had stopped being effective 2 months prior based on factual lab reports. She was unaware of this. I was able to be her health advocate much more effectively by respectfully asking her oncologist targeted questions. He was already on top of it and was addressing the issue. Our conversation was respectful and, due to my educating myself, went up another level. Ultimately, it was a positive interaction. I was satisfied that he was indeed expert at his craft, and he was satisfied that we were aware of the uncertainty of the new treatment with a risk-based understanding of the viability of success. This was a positive engagement with an expert. In parallel situations around non-health issues, I've found the ego of the expert seems to be the determinative factor in whether or not the interaction goes well.
A friend of mine's wife recently passed. They were chasing a suspected heart defect for over a year. She had been intermittently fainting. At about the year mark they decided to scope her digestive track. They found bleeding ulcers from cancer that was all over her body. I input her fainting symptoms into Claude and gastro impact was number two suspected after heart issues.
I have a few of other cases it's helped with. I'm not sure it could do worse than my own experience with the medical system. This is doubly true in places that lack any sort of medical care.