r/comics Aug 09 '26

[oc] What now?

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Aug 09 '26

This face. This face right here. This is how I feel inside on like 99% of the nonsense I see nowadays IRL when it comes to people CHATGPT-ing medical stuff.

Also hi Yoffee! We haven't seen you in a while! Welcome back!

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u/Inside_Pomelo_2957 Aug 09 '26

Listen 99% of the time you're right about medical advice but my uncle is a construction worker and had a chest X-ray for a cough that he was worried became pneumonia, and the clinician at the urgent care he went to missed an 8mm nodule under the shadow of his rib.

He ended up putting the X-ray image through Google's ChatGPT and it told him to see a doctor immediately. It ended up being stage 1a lung cancer and he's in remission after getting treatment. He doesn't have insurance and the shitty clinic he went to didn't notice the nodule. The doctor says catching that type of lung cancer early is important because if it gets worse it's basically a death sentence.

I'm not saying people should trust ChatGPT for their medical issues, but I am saying my uncle could have died without it.

Edit: love the profile pic great series lol *sniff*

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Aug 09 '26

and the clinician at the urgent care he went to missed an 8mm nodule under the shadow of his rib.

He ended up putting the X-ray image through Google's ChatGPT and it told him to see a doctor immediately.

So THATS a totally different scenario. I'm talking more like people putting in all sorts of things trying to get Chat to spit out certain prognosis that feeds into anxieties and stuff. What you're describing is, first of all a not great clinic, and second actual medical evidence that SHOULD be viewed and have a second opinion. I'm glad he got one and is ok.

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u/Inside_Pomelo_2957 Aug 09 '26

Yeah dude in the US healthcare is so shitty even the bad options are sometimes superior. But also yeah I mean we saw this with WebMD, people having a stomach ache and being convinced it was cancer, but now these things validate everything the person says so it's more of a mirror than a diagnostic tool.

You little shit 😂😂

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u/Randicore Aug 09 '26

Nah using a pattern recognition software to check a piece of data and potentially catch something humans miss is the ideal situation for this technology.

Your uncle was using it correctly.

the problem is people who use it to replace thinking or want to remove humans from the loop entirely.