Posted on 09/11/2023 6:52:52 PM PDT by grundle
In total, they visited 17 different doctors over three years. But Alex still had no diagnosis that explained all his symptoms. An exhausted and frustrated Courtney signed up for ChatGPT and began entering his medical information, hoping to find a diagnosis.
“I went line by line of everything that was in his (MRI notes) and plugged it into ChatGPT,” she says. “I put the note in there about ... how he wouldn’t sit crisscross applesauce. To me, that was a huge trigger (that) a structural thing could be wrong.”
She eventually found tethered cord syndrome and joined a Facebook group for families of children with it. Their stories sounded like Alex's. She scheduled an appointment with a new neurosurgeon and told her she suspected Alex had tethered cord syndrome. The doctor looked at his MRI images and knew exactly what was wrong with Alex.
“She said point blank, ‘Here’s occula spinal bifida, and here’s where the spine is tethered,” Courtney says.
Tethered cord syndrome occurs when the tissue in the spinal cord forms attachments that limit movement of the spinal cord, causing it to stretch abnormally, according to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
With tethered cord syndrome, “the spinal cord is stuck to something. It could be a tumor in the spinal canal. It could be a bump on a spike of bones. It could just be too much fat at the end of the spinal cord,” Dr. Holly Gilmer, a pediatric neurosurgeon at the Michigan Head & Spine Institute, who treated Alex, tells TODAY.com. "The abnormality can’t elongate ... and it pulls.”
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Crisscross Applesauce? That’s a medical term, right? I had to look it up. Who talks like this?!
Mommies of little kids, maybe?
Technology is important as humanity has limitations enhanced by drug and alcohol abuse.
It’s racist to say indian style these days.
Most doctors are idiots. Who would have known?
Affirmative.
Action.
I was watching a science show and the future applications of AI in the field of medicine are incredible. It’s predicted that AI will be able to cure diseases, regrow limbs, cure paralysis, etc. Already, AI is far superior at reading radiological charts that human technicians are and will likely replace these technicians.
They could call it twenty-five or six to four.
Do a Google search on “graduating doctors” and you will see how true your statement is.
I think it really is that way and not just Google being selective.
Kindergarten teachers? Little kids?
Faggots.
Doctors are awesome at doing everything your insurance will pay for. If it doesn’t work, oh well.
More likely affirmative profits than affirmative action. Most doctors are members of large medical groups or hospitals that follow protocols to maximize profit and minimize the amount of time spent with patients. Patients with unusual conditions simply fall outside the confidence intervals of the profit bell curve and remain untreated; or worse receive the wrong (expensive) treatment.
They don't cure anything. Where is the money in that?
Their job is to turn patients into ad infinitum revenue streams for the pharmaceutical companies.
Interesting that it took so long to figure out. I’m extremely familiar with this condition. It isn’t that uncommon.
My fourth child was born with this, and it was noticed minutes after he was born.
They did imaging (don’t remember what kind) and found the spinal cord was attached to his skin. “Tethered Cord” is exactly what they called it.
He had surgery to cut it free at 4 weeks old.
He’s 24 now, and has ever had any ill effects.
It is essentially the mildest form of spina bifida you can get. They described the affect it would have had on him as he grew if it wasn’t corrected.
I could have diagnosed this. What the hell is wrong with those doctors.
They’ve been proletarianized: like just about everyone else they must work harder and longer for less money and have lost most professional independence, while the managerial class sucks up all the money.
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