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Mother organizes her son's symptoms with ChatGPT after years without a diagnosis
After three years and many doctors, a mother used ChatGPT to organize symptoms and arrived at a hypothesis confirmed by a specialist.
- Profession
- Parent
- Tools
- ChatGPT
- Source
- today.com ↗
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Report date
- September 11, 2023
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
She pasted her son's symptoms and test results and received a hypothesis (tethered cord syndrome) that led to a specialist.
How it went
The family saw 17 doctors in three years.
Good to know
AI is for organizing information and bringing questions to the doctor, not for diagnosing. Do not include the child's name.
The prompt
Organize these symptoms and test results [list, no names] into a timeline, suggest hypotheses for me to discuss with the doctor, and list questions to bring to the appointment.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
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