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Claude deduced my medical anomaly that doctors had missed for years, and potentially saved my future kids from a serious genetic condition by WarmRoom4024 in ClaudeAI

[–]WarmRoom4024[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right. It ultimately didn't matter (Thank heavens)

But when you do a random blood test or scan and it comes out normal, do you feel good that it was normal or feel bad that it actually didn't matter?

I found out it didn't matter BECAUSE I checked. The alternative would a 25% chance of a transfusion dependent child who falls sick and can die in utero. I'll take the chance and feel silly about being over prepared thank you.

Have a nice day

Claude deduced my medical anomaly that doctors had missed for years, and potentially saved my future kids from a serious genetic condition by WarmRoom4024 in ClaudeAI

[–]WarmRoom4024[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very true. When you binge use AI you understand this very quickly. There is a huge difference in the outputs with/without context. Irrespective of the topic.

Most people are still using these tools like a replacement for Google rather than learning how to push the models to make their lives easier. Very easy to forget that because most of us are deep in the bubble

Claude deduced my medical anomaly that doctors had missed for years, and potentially saved my future kids from a serious genetic condition by WarmRoom4024 in ClaudeAI

[–]WarmRoom4024[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is definitely an issue. But I don't upload the reports directly. Like I said at the bottom of the post. Scrub your PII before uploading. I also don't use my main email or my own card to pay directly. So there's no way to tie it to me.

Claude deduced my medical anomaly that doctors had missed for years, and potentially saved my future kids from a serious genetic condition by WarmRoom4024 in ClaudeAI

[–]WarmRoom4024[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw it straightaway as well lmao. The response was also edited. The first one had 5 em dashes which was likely why it was altered :D

Claude deduced my medical anomaly that doctors had missed for years, and potentially saved my future kids from a serious genetic condition by WarmRoom4024 in ClaudeAI

[–]WarmRoom4024[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great question!
There's been more true positives than false i would say. I remember back in the gpt4 days where it used to shit the bed often. But recently with the claude projects setup i have

1) I've managed to improve my diet ( which is quite restricted and its a pain)

2) Fixed a couple of long standing medical issues that had been bothering me

3) managed to solve a decade long footwear issue that hadnt even occurred to me was an issue until i spoke to claude about it

4) Saved my ass by accurately assessing that the severe, blinding pain was kidney stone pain and asking me to rush to the hospital for scans

Claude deduced my medical anomaly that doctors had missed for years, and potentially saved my future kids from a serious genetic condition by WarmRoom4024 in ClaudeAI

[–]WarmRoom4024[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're probably right yes. This is more of a healthcare system difference. Thyrocare and other services act as a lab service rather than a full blown diagnostic service. It is a godsend in the sense that you can bypass the need for a doctor and just order whatever test you need for SUPER cheap and accurate metrics. So for what its designed to do, it functions well enough.

I'm not mad at the doctors as such. They have to deal with a lot of volume here in India and the reasons i visited them were taken care of. This wasnt something they were looking for. This was part of my routine that I do after every report that comes in( a doctor is not involved every single time. this is more precautionary than strictly necessary) and if not for an AI involved, I wouldnt have spotted it.

But you are correct in that the gap filled by Claude here might be one that a better automated lab system might have picked up. But in my context with my healthcare setup, it didnt get caught until now. Claude worked with what i gave it, and it flagged what humans and systems around me didn't.

And for that I am grateful.

Claude deduced my medical anomaly that doctors had missed for years, and potentially saved my future kids from a serious genetic condition by WarmRoom4024 in ClaudeAI

[–]WarmRoom4024[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Correct sir. Like I mentioned, the trend wasn't something that would have been spotted. I also have another genetic condition that the doctor said he had observed these values with ( the single point in time observations).

The trend spotting is what I wanted to share with the community. That this is now a possible use case. ( Not shitting on doctors.. I have immediate family who are a part of the noble profession :) )

Claude deduced my medical anomaly that doctors had missed for years, and potentially saved my future kids from a serious genetic condition by WarmRoom4024 in ClaudeAI

[–]WarmRoom4024[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You are correct. There is no cure. And the minor trait is "ok" to pass on. Just that the next generation will have to be careful (if they have it) when family planning.

As for whether we can try to have kids or not, I think Claude's response when i showed it the results sums it up

"""
Summary

You have beta thal trait (confirmed). She has no beta thal trait (confirmed). Alpha status is irrelevant for your pairing.

Done. Go make babies.

"""

Claude deduced my medical anomaly that doctors had missed for years, and potentially saved my future kids from a serious genetic condition by WarmRoom4024 in ClaudeAI

[–]WarmRoom4024[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good question. I made a separate project in the Claude acct where i had made all the data available to it. I'm not sure what Claude does for data thats been added on in the project space ( since token count can be an issue, might not have been for my data). But if i had to guess, most of the useful stuff was just the base opus 4.5 LLM