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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maggie O'Neill

ChatGPT diagnoses cause of child’s chronic pain after 17 doctors failed

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ChatGPT helped a mother determine what was causing her son’s debilitating pain that had been ongoing for three years.

Courtney, who chose not to reveal her last name, told Today her son Alex started experiencing difficult symptoms when he was four years old during the Covid-19 lockdown. The family’s nanny “started telling me, ‘I have to give him Motrin every day, or he has these gigantic meltdowns,’” Courtney said. The painkillers helped to subdue her child’s pain, but other worrisome symptoms started popping up.

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