This story is written like it vindicates AI medicine but really it seems like the human medical system dropped the ball on the MRI. ChatGPT didn't have any brilliant insight, it just (eventually) suggested the same thing a human doctor had already suggested, but this time the author and his wife pushed harder for it to happen.
To use the metaphor from the article, they found the keys in the last place they looked.
The human medical system drops the ball all the time unfortunately. What I don’t understand is how they didn’t see that giant fibroid from ultrasound alone. An MRI shouldn’t have been needed. Then the doctor trying to talk them out of the MRI, I hope they were embarrassed after. So upsetting. My wife’s friend had something similar happen after 2-3 years of unsuccessful fertility treatment, then they finally realized she had endometriosis. Seems like that should have been looked into sooner.
> What I don’t understand is how they didn’t see that giant fibroid from ultrasound alone. An MRI shouldn’t have been needed
This is really kinda the crux of it.
The AI suggested the MRI not because it had some insight into "oh there's something only an MRI can detect going on", it was just a "collect more data" situation.
Frankly, the author of the blog should probably have gotten a second opinion from a different fertility doctor sometime in the intervening time period.
As someone who also went through multiple rounds of IVF with my partner, the number of ultrasounds you get during the process is immense. It's hard to call missing a peach-sized fibroid that many times anything other than gross incompetence.
I think this is where there is simply not enough information in the post. Fibroids can change in size over time. That being said, there are multiple types of fibroids apparently so it may be a type that wouldn't show up on ultrasound.
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To use the metaphor from the article, they found the keys in the last place they looked.
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This is really kinda the crux of it.
The AI suggested the MRI not because it had some insight into "oh there's something only an MRI can detect going on", it was just a "collect more data" situation.
Frankly, the author of the blog should probably have gotten a second opinion from a different fertility doctor sometime in the intervening time period.
As someone who also went through multiple rounds of IVF with my partner, the number of ultrasounds you get during the process is immense. It's hard to call missing a peach-sized fibroid that many times anything other than gross incompetence.
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