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Re:AI Tool Found My Autoimmune Disease After $100k and 30 Ho... by dylan604 on Monday February 10, 2025 @10:24AM (#43001358)
> Tools like this that spit out

WebMD has been like this well before current iterations of LLMs. Pretty much any symptom you looked up would very meme-like say "it could be cancer". Only, it wasn't trying to be a meme. I always saw it more of a CYA on webMD's part though, without trying to sound authoritative like LLMs do.

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Re:AI Tool Found My Autoimmune Disease After $100k and 30 Ho... by Angostura on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:47AM (#43002299)
You might enjoy the opening of the comic novel Three Men In A Boat, where the narrator reads a medical dictionary and finds he is suffering from every malady listed apart from- much to his annoyance- housemaid’s knee.

https://gutenberg.org/files/308/308-h/308-h.htm

Published 1889

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Re:AI Tool Found My Autoimmune Disease After $100k and 30 Ho... by gopalv on Monday February 10, 2025 @03:00PM (#43004512)
The doctor's prescription is probably applicable even to this day.

Food, bitter beer, exercise, early bedtimes and "stop stuffing your head with things you don't understand".

> I followed the directions, with the happy result—speaking for myself—that my life was preserved, and is still going on.

I read the book as part of my English - II in school, but no part stuck to me as much as the Liver cure for children.

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