Our AI Midwife: how an LLM helped a couple through unexplained infertility
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-03
A guest post on Astral Codex Ten by Drew Housman recounts how he and his wife used GPT-4 as their constant medical companion through years of failed IVF and an "unexplained infertility" diagnosis. With doctors offering only minutes per visit, the LLM fielded every anxious question about scans and treatments — not replacing physicians, but opening medical knowledge to patients the system had given up on. A striking case of AI quietly changing a life.
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