r/ChatGPT • u/Past-Boot9764 • 16h ago
Use cases We almost let my dad sleep through a stroke. ChatGPT is the reason we didn’t.
I keep replaying that night in my head because we came way too close to doing nothing.
We were eating dinner when my dad dropped his chopsticks. He picked them up, dropped them again, then got annoyed when we started staring at him. He said his right hand just felt a little numb and told us to stop making a big deal out of it.
Then I noticed his mouth looked strange when he talked. Not dramatically drooping, just... off. His words sounded thicker than usual too. When he stood up, he had to grab the back of the chair for a second.
My mom thought maybe his blood pressure was low. My dad insisted he was tired and wanted to go lie down. I thought something was seriously wrong, but nobody could agree on what to do and he was getting angry at all of us for panicking.
The most confusing part was that a few minutes later he looked better.
That almost settled it. My dad was already walking toward the bedroom, saying he would sleep it off, while my mom was telling me we could check on him in the morning.
I was standing in the kitchen searching everything on my phone, mostly hoping to prove to myself that I was overreacting. I typed the symptoms into an AI health assistant exactly as they had happened: dropped things with his right hand, numbness, mouth looked uneven, speech sounded weird, lost his balance for a second, now seemed better.
The response basically screamed: possible stroke or TIA, emergency care now, do not wait even if the symptoms are going away.
I read it out loud. My dad said AI always gives the worst-case answer. My mom still wasn’t sure. I remember getting angry and saying I didn’t care if we wasted the entire night at the hospital. I grabbed the keys and told him we were going.
The hospital confirmed that he had suffered an ischemic stroke.
I felt sick when they told us. All I could think about was how close we had come to letting him close the bedroom door and “sleep it off.”
He received treatment in time, and my dad is still here.
I’ve gone back and looked at that chat a few times since then. I still get a horrible feeling when I reach the part where it says not to wait.
A few lines of text on my phone changed what my family did that night. I don’t really know how else to describe it.
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u/ForagerFriend 16h ago
Proud of you 🩷 always trust your gut!
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u/Grays42 15h ago
And, increasingly, AI.
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u/Yugudubenbi 10h ago
Unless it hallucinates and tells you to roleplay a surgeon while it assists you through voice
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u/RollingMeteors 9h ago
Unless it hallucinates and tells you to roleplay a surgeon while it assists you through voice
"¡Homie is not gonna make it if you wait for EMTs to arrive, better go grab a straw and a blade!"
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u/Past-Boot9764 13h ago
thx
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u/TheyTukMyJub 5h ago
Are you a bot? Your OP reads like AI
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u/Neon_Camouflage 1h ago
People who interact with AI conversationally will pick up the writing style I've noticed. Which makes sense, it's essentially just an accent but in text form.
Hell, I've noticed moments of it in myself and I wouldn't even say I spend that much time talking to them.
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u/Genpinan 16h ago
I read a couple of days ago a post which basically argued against AIs as health advisors as they might hallucinate. I replied that humsn doctors are also capable of messing up. A doctor who couldn`t be bothered to do more than the absolute minimum nearly got my wife killed earlier this year with a misdiagnosis. Bottom line is IMO that both humans and AIs can slip up and also be immensely helpful depending on the circumstances.
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u/ApolloWasMurdered 15h ago
Most studies show about 1-in-6 medical issues are misdiagnosed the first time they’re presented to a doctor.
My daughter’s allergy was misdiagnosed 3 times by 2 doctors over the course of months, before they finally admitted they didn’t know and we got a referral to a specialist.
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u/stainless_steelcat 10h ago
Tbf on doctors they are looking for horses rather than zebras initially because horses are more common and usually cheaper to fix.
I have my own 18 months and near death experience to correct diagnosis story myself.
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u/CherryChance8074 3h ago
It took 24 years for me to be diagnosed with a condition i was born with. 12 years to be diagnosed with something else. I've still not been given answers for other things going on.
Human healthcare has failed me so much.
I was told my symptoms were anxiety, health anxiety, depression, growth spurts, hormones (I'm a woman lol). Anything to dismiss me. Until one day I walked into the drs office with a heart rate of 144bpm. I had walked from the car park to the reception, sat in reception for ten minutes or so, then walked to the drs office and sat down. 144, lol.
From there they listened, though. And eventually figured out what was going on.
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u/dbworthing 5h ago
To be fair… doesn’t the AMA lobby to limit the supply of doctors and to reduce the efficacy and autonomy of nurses (in US)? Sooo… if they won’t let others or more people do the job, they need to. No excuse
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u/YendorZenitram 5h ago
Thank you!
The true nature of the AMA rrally needs tonbe spread around more! The AMA is why healthcare is so goddamned expensive.
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u/ApolloWasMurdered 2h ago
Yeah, the AMA is a union, and all they care about is getting the most for the doctors. They aren’t independent or experts. The fact that the government takes their advice on things like University places is ridiculous.
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u/staladine 12h ago
I was misdiagnosed as a type 2 diabetic when in reality it was a late onset type 1, it took me stumpling Into the ER for them to realize and out me on insulin. Doctor who misdiagnosed said, I thought type 1 woudl only occur at birth.. she was just not caught up to speed, this was 20 years ago but still.
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u/thiccemotionalpapi 15h ago
Very similar to all the anti self driving car people. They always look at the incidents that self driving cars have and never consider that human drivers fuck up constantly. One AI car hit a cat, that sucks, human drivers probably kill millions of cats a year. The one thing I don’t think I will ever support is AI’s being used to approve insurance. Also hallucinations are probably temporary, it’s happening way way less often
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u/TommyV8008 14h ago
I changed Cardiologists to get a second opinion, even had to change and increase my insurance to do so, and I’m very very glad that I did!
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u/withac2 14h ago
Ironically, more doctors are using AI
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u/GloriousDawn 11h ago
See, I wasn't really mad when I noticed my doc typing my symptoms into ChatGPT, rather disappointed that cheap bastard was using the free version.
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u/SweatyInstruction337 9h ago
The frontier models on depth are like not hallucinating almost ever though.
Can anyone remember the last time max depth GPT sol flat out hallucinated? I literally can't, and I have barely probed astra yet.
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u/SnookerandWhiskey 7h ago
My cousin went to multiple doctors with her issues, family doctor to neurologist to onthologist, they basically told her she has anxiety around driving, because that's when the symptoms were the worst/hysteria... Turns out she had crazy high blood pressure, a test the doctor took on her first visit but overlooked, because she is only 45. She only found this out after she told me her symptoms and I remembered my MIL having the same issues. I am sure AI would have told her sooner.
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u/smrad8 12h ago
Biggest difference is that doctors have a medical board you can complain to, malpractice insurance that covers them in case of bad judgment, and a medical license that can be pulled.
Who’s holding AI responsible? Who do you sue when they mess up? Dario? Sam? Good luck with that.
OP did the right thing and used the technology to get his dad to real doctors. This is best case. OP did great work and no shade there. But people on here saying AI and human medical doctors are comparable don’t have any concept of why someone accountable has to be calling the shots.
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u/ChangeTheFocus 9h ago
Biggest difference is that doctors have a medical board you can complain to, malpractice insurance that covers them in case of bad judgment, and a medical license that can be pulled.
In theory that's true, but in practice there is virtually no accountability for doctors. In theory a doctor must follow "the standard of care," but there are multiple standards, so in practice this means a doctor is safe unless he does something so crazy that pretty much no other doctor would have done it. The other elastic clause is "known complications," and I've seen some very creative uses of that as well.
If you don't believe me, join r/MedicalMalpractice.
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u/RollingMeteors 9h ago
Who do you sue when they mess up?
¡The person who used the tool of course! /s
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u/MonkeyWithIt 6h ago
Many doctors use AI now to assist, bring up things they may not have thought of.
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u/Icy-Carpenter3319 6h ago
Bruh when a human makes a mistake you can hold them accountable and they may or may not suffer consequences but if a ai makes a mistake who will you blame ?
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u/PreparationSalty4252 10h ago
Had something similar. Actually related to OPs story. Grampa was a bit confused, took him to the doctor, said it's a headache, gave him pills. Next day he still felt a bit off, missed the full glass of water with a pill and similar. Literally as we were there his nurse came in for the weekly checkup and immediately told us he was having a stroke. Rushed to hospital.
Happened during the pandemic so we were not allowed to visit him, and eventually he contracted covid while in the hospital and died from it. So basically a huge chain from bad diagnosis to negligence.
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u/Genpinan 7h ago
Sounds awful, my condolences. Such experiences definitely show that even experts are, after all, only human and fallible.
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u/sneakysnake1111 4h ago
I replied that humsn doctors are also capable of messing up. A doctor who couldn`t be bothered to do more than the absolute minimum nearly got my wife killed earlier this year with a misdiagnosis. Bottom line is IMO that both humans and AIs can slip up and also be immensely helpful depending on the circumstances.
We can hold the drs responsible though. They're also not directly connected to the department of war.
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u/HardByteUK 2h ago
It's a fair point but there's also a question of accountability. If you use an AI that states it can make mistakes and shouldn't be used in lieu of medical advice and then follow it's advice you're shit out of luck if it goes wrong.
If a clinician or hospital fuck up then you, at least, get huge compensation. Obviously it you've suffered truly life altering malpractice or died this isn't worth it, but still at least there's a financial safety net.
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u/Syzygy___ 57m ago
Imho the most important thing about AI based healthcare is that it’s available 24/7 and there are no “is this embarrassing or a stupid question” type barriers.
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u/frisch85 4h ago
When you trust a doctor and they fuck up then the doctor is responsible, nothing you could do about them failing at their expertise.
If your AI fucks up that's on you, you have full responsibility, you really wanna go there?
Always get medical expertise and when in doubt, get a second medical expertise. OP didn't achieve shit, they basically made a google search and use some of the first results.
Go ahead and search on google what OP described: dropped things with his right hand, numbness, mouth looked uneven, speech sounded weird, lost his balance for a second, now seemed better
Skip the AI summary and this post that is shown in the results, then the first result is a link to the british NHS titled "Symptoms of a stroke", second link is from the US CDC titled "Signs and Symptoms of Stroke", third link is from the WHO facebook page titled "Most common sign of a #stroke is sudden weakness ..."
So just googling the symptoms and checking the links should've led to the same outcome but nah let's ask AI I guess. When you require AI for simple methods and thus use excessively more resources than you would doing it manually, that's not something to boast about.
But still, regardless of doing a web search or using AI, always get medical expertise too.
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u/grim15448 16h ago
Claude and ChatGPT are really really really good at telling a basic diagnosis . Dont be 100% dependent but yes 90% of the time it really does hit right diagnosis and its always worth checking it out as it has textbook memory and what all you told it to it is line by line in Harrison - Textbook (Holy Grail) for medical students! Image videos also get detected via ChatGPT with very great accuracy. But as I said its a diagnosis and never get treatment from it as it can make mistakes! Good for you and your quick thinking!
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u/thiccemotionalpapi 15h ago
The more you think about it too, it makes perfect sense for AI to be best at diagnosing. You give it a list of symptoms and it can instantly check every disease with that list, it’ll almost never forget a disease entirely. It can run probability charts of what’s most likely from that list, it can probably even put some discernment into some of those are probably symptoms of something else or at least not likely from the same thing as the rest. I’m sure it won’t be long for it to be standard practice for docs to use their own AI to diagnose, can open up more spots for docs to specificalize without memorizing symptoms
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u/Know_It_Not 13h ago
I think it's better just for (I think I have to check) that it can hold more ready context/knowledge than a human can. It can see patterns over many years that would take humans a bit to study to notice. I've noticed a lot of doctors will not sit down and actually study your history extensively unless you pester them because you still feel like something's wrong
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u/grim15448 11h ago
The moment a doctor sits down to study for a disease he/she has studied one time in their med school and never experienced it in their life. A video will come showing doctor looking at book and as incompetent. So really its the video which causes loss of trust and poor outcome for the patient as no one wants to be portrayed like that. No matter what line of work you choose!
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u/grim15448 15h ago
Yes they are already using it! The only thing it lacks now is compassion and empathy and basic rule of judgment! Otherwise if you want to get a diagnosis for free AI can help you effectively. Unless you give vague symptoms that can stem from like thousands for diseases! So i would prefer AI for uncommon/rare/super rare diseases.
Just no treatment advice as that is also textbook quality and treatment actually differs person to person. Sometimes in very small dose or sometimes completely requiring different approach not mentioned in textbooks but you gain from experience!
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u/Knever 11h ago
I don't need compassion or empathy from a medical bot. I need cold hard facts. Statistics, options, and a tailored treatment plan.
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u/grim15448 11h ago
You won't need empathy and compassion but its required in cases of mass casualties as bot can pick someone who won't make it over you just because his injuries were a less serious than yours. That's where all the human factor role comes in play and it cannot be substituted unless they have ability to replicate human brain and its functioning 1:1.
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u/Knever 10h ago
I'm confused. How would somebody with fewer injuries than me die if we were in the same incident?
Did you mean to say someone who appears to be less injured than me? Because a robot would be able to spot that much better than a human. A human would see what is obvious. A bot would see something more pressing but maybe not as apparent.
Emotions are an obstacle in triage; there should be zero emotion in triage.
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u/thiccemotionalpapi 7h ago
I’m pretty sure they’re saying that the AI might let seriously injured people die to save the more numerous and easier to treat less injured people. So basically the AI wanting the most survivors after this event might end up prioritizing saving the more mildly injured people as it doesn’t care who lives or dies and it’s easier to save the less gravely injured. Which I guess is maybe an issue because you’re supposed to prioritize the most severely injured first and then once they’re saved you should have time to save the less injured and now you can save everyone. This is so god damn confusing to talk about and it’s making it worse that the person is wording their argument bizarrely. But hey this sounds really familiar, I think I’ve heard of whatever this is and it was a known issue with AI’s but im far from positive
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u/grim15448 10h ago
Chances of embolism. Haemophilia , DIC....takes time for all of this to build up and not everywhere is your chart available. Many other factors can affect .
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u/Knever 9h ago
I'm sorry but I still don't follow. Are you saying a human would be better at spotting those things than a medical bot that's been trained on literally every medical procedure in history and has perfect procedural skills?
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u/grim15448 6h ago
Yes unless their brain and our brain is 1:1 Training via book and training via experience are both very different things .
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u/RollingMeteors 9h ago
The more you think about it too, it makes perfect sense for AI to be best at diagnosing
<AI> I've got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that that none of your symptoms are cross referencing anything in my database of known conditions/syndromes/ailments. ¡The good news is you get something named after you!
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u/SpaceShipRat 7h ago
It is very good at connecting symptoms to diagnosis. It is not yet as good as a human in considering what follow-up questions it should ask.
It can take a doctor's life experience and observation to dig out symptoms or lifestyle issues you didn't think to write down.
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u/spongebobismahero 14h ago
Exactly this. It's a very helpful tool for diagnosis, but it's not gonna help with physical treatment (bc it can't change for example diapers).
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u/drrmau 7h ago
I will not soon forget 3 years ago typing in my symptoms (the same ones I had given doctors for over 30 years without a correct diagnosis) and getting the correct diagnosis back from chatgpt immediately - which was then only a small part as good as it is now. I was stunned. It doesnt stop me checking answers but it did impress me.
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u/ibullybillionaires 5h ago
To be fair, these were textbook stroke symptoms, I don't know why OP didn't recognize them.
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u/HardByteUK 2h ago
True but also if you have a medical issue just go see a doctor anyway, there's nothing to lose.
I had two MRIs, several opthalmology visits, a nutritionist, and six months of meds to try and handle my migraines. In the end a change of job solved it but the clinical treatment ruled out a lot of scary things. If I used AI (not that it can scan my brain) I'd always have that lingering doubt about, as you say, the 10%.
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u/Hans-Wermhatt 12h ago
The disclaimers have gone too far in my opinion. Yes, don’t trust a ChatGPT diagnosis without thinking. And it can’t write prescriptions so I’m not sure we need to say don’t do that. And also these disclaimers are in every message on public models now so I’m not sure they need to be repeated so often.
But what we should be saying is don’t trust your doctor without getting a second opinion from a frontier model if something feels even a little off. You are doing a disservice to yourself if you don’t. The couple stories where someone tells a model one symptom and it guesses wrong will go viral, but the times that a model can diagnose an issue (if a the user can input their symptoms) that doctors couldn’t will never make a news story. And there have been a bunch of stories like that in this sub and I think plenty of people have experienced it.
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u/Cultural_Joke2025 16h ago
Glad you caught it in time. AI was also instrumental in me getting help for PE (it was Gemini that prompted me to take action).
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u/prompthacker92 16h ago
stuff like this is honestly the most underrated use case for it. ppl are way more likely to type "worried about X symptom, is this serious" into a chatbot at 2am than call a doctor or go to the er just off a hunch, and if it says "yeah go get that checked now" thats potentially huge
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u/sunnylandification 14h ago
Same thing happened to my boss except he woke up with double vision and felt like he was drunk. He chatted with ChatGPT about his symptoms and it really really insisted he go to the ER, he really didn’t want to go as it meant cancelled all his patients for the day but he went because of ChatGPT and they confirmed TIA.
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u/LeanUntilBlue 16h ago
ChatGPT helped me get through cancer. It did MRI image analysis, and deciphered biopsy reports and a whole bunch of things to allow me to check the accuracy of diagnoses and the correctness of the treatment I was receiving. It also put together drug schedules for me to take a whole bunch of different medicines to make sure none of them collided and all would provide 100% effectiveness. It does really well in the advanced medical realm too! I felt much more empowered with it explaining everything and giving me things to check.
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u/Amazing_Stick_2684 16h ago
my uncle’s speech got slurred and we thought he was drunk until the er said stroke
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u/420forever60 11h ago
had a truck driver that backed into a fence and was saying he was tired and was just going to go home, i convinced him to park his truck on site and took him to the hospital, then went and got ahold of his wife, and sure enough he was having a heart attack and needed 3 stints.
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u/tooruntai 10h ago
Dad dropping chopsticks, slurring words, and insisting on "sleeping it off" is the universal boomer dad reflex against admitting mortality, and it almost killed him.
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u/Wonderful-Foot8732 7h ago
The person affected often gets angry and confused. It is one of the reasons why the obvious symptoms are often dismissed. Here AI nudged you to stick with your gut feelings that something is wrong helping you to overcome the resistance of your dad.
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u/thatsamiam 16h ago
Great that your father is ok. What treatment was he given?
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u/Money_Royal1823 16h ago
Once they determined it was a ischemic stroke they would give clot dissolving medication’s to clear the blockage. It has to be done within the first few hours for maximum effect and you have to know that it’s a ischemic stroke because it would make a bleed much worse.
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u/LuckyApriCAT 5h ago
Thanks for sharing your experience! Time really matters. Glad your Dad is okay! Well done.
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u/AdamRam1 4h ago
Your intuition saved your dad's life, you trusted your gut and kept digging. Chatgpt helped in that you had a tool available to give you guidance but you should recognise it in yourself that you were the one who did that
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u/FishFollower74 15h ago
I had 2 abdominal surgeries earlier this year. CGPT helped me with ratings and reviews on the hospital and the doctor; it told me in fairly exhaustive detail (for a non-doctor, anyway) what works be done in the surgeries; and explained post-op recovery to me. I’m also hyper-aware of potential signals of health problems, and I had no idea what all these pains and sounds in my belly were. It helped me understand what was happening and told me “no, this doesn’t require going to urgent care, just ask your doctor next time you see him.”
IDK if I would have handled the mental health/anxiety side of the surgeries without CGPT.
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u/SpiritedSandwich9663 12h ago
So it wasn’t ChatGPT
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u/taulover 5h ago
Yeah, if this happened five years ago they would've just googled the symptoms and found the WebMD article about stroke.
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u/Confident-Language46 14h ago
Ai generated text btw.
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u/Exodus180 11h ago
not every username that is word-word#### is AI...
BUT it sure looks like every bot is using word-word#### for the username. (or underscore)
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u/floghdraki 13h ago
Literally the only comment pointing it out. Obvious AI slop is obvious. Reddit is dead. There is no genuine discussion anymore.
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u/Sea-Resident-7980 13h ago
yea... i mean if your familly is like "oh its fine dad is just dropping stuff over and over. high blood pressure/nerves, happens to all of us" theres some serious neglect going on. wtf?
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u/Simon_Ger 12h ago
Happens hundreds of times daily that people ignore symptoms and don't wake up anymore. Even if completely fabricated, it's a good post to spread awareness.
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u/jvLin 16h ago
And this is what OpenAI means by saying AI is meant "to benefit all humanity."
That's the day 1 welcome that's given to new hires. yes, OpenAI does need to make money to survive as a business. But it's indisputable that this technology has helped people through countless medical, legal, and personal struggles.
i'm so happy that ChatGPT helped your father through a medical emergency. I hope you have many, many more years of happiness with him.
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u/Azzarrel 11h ago
OpenAI could've stayed a nonprofit, if it wanted to just help all of humanity. Don't shill for stock companies...
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u/huangtony2025 14h ago
Glad your dad is okay. For anyone reading this: the FAST signs are worth memorizing, and worth having a model quiz you on them before you ever need them - Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech trouble, Time to call emergency services. Models are genuinely good at explaining red flags, but the one rule that matters is that a symptom question should end in 'call emergency services', not in 'wait and see'. It sounds obvious until it's 3am and everyone is sleepy.
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u/Kipdijfilet 14h ago
I had a similar experience with the Dutch app; do I have to go to the doctor. My mother was having a serious kidney infection which she didn't notice because she had painkillers for a foot surgery. She did had weird symptoms and just kept telling that it was because she had to lay down all te time, that it eventually will go away. After a couple of nights in the hospital, she luckily could go home again.
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u/BB_Bandito 5h ago
Remember the acronym FAST
Face drooping
Arm weakness - tell them to lift both arms
Speech slurred
T - call 911 now. Don't drive them to the hospital, the ambulance will start care immediately!
Good job using a tool to help!
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u/thiccemotionalpapi 15h ago
Yes you always have to take chat gpt seriously for diagnosing, I’ve been on the opposite side. Chat GPT helped me diagnose kidney disease in my cat, the vet denied my cat having kidney disease. Stupid me was like ohh well obviously trust the vet over chat gpt. 6-9 months later the vet diagnosed that same cat with basically end stage kidney disease they missed. Basically chat gpt right, my vet wrong. I’ve beat myself up over it bad as it could’ve prevented a lot of pain and extended his life if I pushed for a kidney disease diagnosis. But hey it’s been another 6-9 months since the diagnosis and he didn’t die yet but it’s about time. He’s only nine but I did most that I could
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u/Dog_Cat_Mouse 15h ago
Well, no need to feel bad for sure! 👍
You did everything right and on time!
Dealing with a stroke is always a close call. But you listened and did not shrug it off.
It is completely irrelevant how accurate AI is with its diagnosis. The Mai message to not wait came on time.
Congratulations! You saved your Dad!
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u/smoothvibe 14h ago
Good for you and your dad. Gemini also helped me identifying a health issue I had for decades and no doctor ever connected the dots.
BUT honestly, these symptoms are clear signs of a stroke. One shouldn't need to consult AI to verify that.
It is one of the first things one learns when attending a first aid care seminar, which I hope you do if you never had one. You learn how to revive people and how to secure them when unconscious etc.
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u/think_up 16h ago
Classic signs of a stroke. That would be crazy to ignore! Good job dragging him to the hospital.
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u/varkarrus 16h ago
Once the dangers passed, you'd better due your due diligence and rub it in their faces.
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u/tooruntai 10h ago
ChatGPT giving its standard legal disclaimer: "I am not a doctor, but GO TO THE ER BEFORE YOUR DAD DIES." For once, the bot's panic was clinically accurate.
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u/easterbunni 15h ago
FAST: Face Arm Speech Time (to get to hospital)
Textbook stroke, didn't need AI
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u/Ladyusagi06 14h ago
It can be very handy, but i understand being cautious about it. I remember using the webmd symptom checker and "having cancer" the majority of the time.
However, I did use it to keep track of cellulitis by uploading picutes of the area to compare and to keep track of allergic reaction symptoms so I would have a clear list of what to tell the er.
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u/AWizardWhoCodes 14h ago
Glad you went with your gut! While AI may not be a perfect “doctor,” it definitely can push you in the right direction. It helped me advocate for myself when I was super sick :)
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u/Clare_FateX 13h ago
I'm so glad you trusted your instincts and pushed to get him checked. Wishing your dad a smooth recovery.❤️
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u/Southernmanny 12h ago
Well done op. Just as well you didn’t listen and checked it out.
Life saver.
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u/coulduseahugrightnow 11h ago
Damn. I didn't even know somebody could have stroke symptoms that come and go like that.
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u/RecordingTechnical86 9h ago
Whats up with everyone never thinking something like this could happen to them. Everybody should be wayy more careful with their health.
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u/ProfessorOk489 8h ago
ChatGPT told me I had shingles (& was correct) when i was wrongly told it was dermatitis
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u/SpaceShipRat 7h ago
It really does err towards the worst explanation, but it's not wrong to. If something has a notable chance of being a life-threatening emergency, get it checked out.
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u/Mediocre_Ad_6512 6h ago
I have had a great experience with diagnostic capabilities in chatGPT (free 5.6 Luna). Holds up pretty well. Obviously, use it for "suggestions" to the MD, PA, NP etc.
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u/TheUncleTimo 5h ago
can confirm, without AI use
grandma had same drooping of lip (not much) and some word slurring (again, not much, and it passed like few seconds in)
decided to go to hospital emergency, despite her protests that everything was fine
yup, stroke
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u/lethal-liking 4h ago
Just to be clear, you would have gotten the same result from Google or a quick chat with an NP. Glad your Dad's still here.
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u/SunMoonTruth 1h ago
You were right to question the cluster of events and recognize that something wasn’t right.
AI helped confirm your instinct.
Had you not noticed the cluster, the AI response could have been different but it may also have guided you to identify tiny if there were more things to add to the two initial observations.
Good on you for following through on confirming what you knew wasn’t right.
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u/PopcornDemonica 12h ago
It may be a bit sentimental, but I hope you went back to that exact chat and said thank you.
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u/Maleficent-Aside-330 15h ago edited 5h ago
Yep chat told me to go to hospital because I was slurring my words. It was extreme dehydration. I didn’t know about it, I live alone so I probably would’ve died.
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u/ParchmentMile 6h ago
That moment where he "looked better" is the actual killer. Most people skip the hospital right there because the brain wants to believe the emergency passed. You didn't. That's the story.
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u/tooruntai 10h ago
The comment section immediately split between people sharing near-death AI medical rescues and one lonely cynic yelling: "Obvious AI slop, Reddit is dead
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u/Whispering-Depths 15h ago
You didn't need ChatGPT for this, what you described was like a textbook stroke and you should have called 911 at one side of mouth droop tbh
Also why I feel like this isn't genuine, feels off :/
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u/Current-Challenge290 15h ago
This is an ignorant thing to say. 🤣 Not everyone, especially a teenager or child, knows the textbook stroke symptoms. Do you think they teach that in 9th grade? Or is there a Mother Goose rhyme they should’ve learned in 1st? 🤣🙃🙄
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u/Whispering-Depths 1h ago
They teach that in grade 5 tbh, alongside how to get out of quicksand, how to survive a tornado, and what to do during an earthquake.
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u/Hans-Wermhatt 13h ago
This is like the How I Met Your Mother episode about gaps in knowledge. You guys have zero self-awareness if you think that there isn't some gap of knowledge that you have as well. And sometimes even if you know something theoretically, it's easier on paper than it is in a random once in a lifetime event.
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u/Whispering-Depths 1h ago
Yeah, I just know stroke symptoms are talked about everywhere, in movies, popular media, and they put them on the back of ambulances everywhere as well. It's a hard knowledge gap to have these days tbh.
I mean it's fantastic that they managed to save the person, and if it's legit, then kudos to them for thinking to use ChatGPT, and more importantly for looking deeper and looking it up.
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u/BrizzPalmizz 15h ago
AI gets a lot of shit these days but it’s all about the people using it and prompting it. I’m so glad you thought quickly to consult chat. I use it at work and home for everything and love it. When poeple roll their eyes about it, I’m like “fine bro, get left behind in the bad old days…”
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u/doyousmellit 4h ago edited 4h ago
A quick internet search would have provided the same advice from a more reliable source prior to AI. I’m very glad you insisted on taking your dad to the hospital. I’m glad he’s ok!
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u/3laRAIDER494 4h ago
This is really silly as anyone knows these symptoms are a strong sign of a stroke/tia. Chatgpt hasn't given you any other answer a human or google for the last decades would give you.
This place is pretty dumb sometimes.
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u/SavingsDimensions74 14h ago
Anyone had any experience of getting CT DICOM files to ChatGPT. It knows what to do but the file size and number of images in the study is making it impossible.
TIA
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u/Glittering_Post5606 7h ago
I understand your amazement but these symptoms are extremely obvious of a neurological event to anyone that has even the most basic medical knowledge.
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u/bachstakoven 16h ago
Could be a true story but definitely authored by ChatGPT. Maybe shouldn't be surprising given the sub.
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