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Our AI Midwife
A couple used ChatGPT to help diagnose their unexplained infertility, with the AI suggesting an MRI that revealed a previously undetected fibroid; after its removal, they successfully conceived.
13 min read 1,870 words
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medical diagnosis
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Essays on medical diagnosis
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Symptom, Condition, Cause
Scott Alexander argues that psychiatric diagnoses, while imperfect, are useful tools despite potentially combining multiple conditions with different causes.
9 min read 1,390 words
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Does the Glasgow Coma Scale exist? Do comas?
Scott Alexander defends the validity of intelligence and IQ tests by comparing them to comas and the Glasgow Coma Scale in medicine.
20 min read 3,056 words
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If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing With Made-Up Statistics
Scott Alexander argues for the value of using quantification and made-up statistics in decision-making, even when imperfect, as they often outperform intuition and reveal biases in our thinking.
10 min read 1,538 words