WSJ Reporter Says AI Diagnosed Decades-Old Medical Mystery Her Doctors Missed
EricTopol · x · 2026-11-14
WSJ journalist Katherine Bindley recounts how, after years of unexplained migraines, asthma, abdominal pain and heavy bleeding, Google's AI Mode spotted what doctors missed: her symptoms pointed to adenomyosis and endometriosis.
Key details:
- The AI did longitudinal analysis of her full medical history, estimating that her combination of symptoms was "close to zero" probability without these conditions, and flagged rare presentations like subcostal pain from diaphragm compression.
- Follow-up imaging confirmed the AI's assessment, and she is now weighing a hysterectomy.
- She openly interrogates AI hallucination risk, re-describing her case from scratch to verify, and cites research showing endometriosis patients average 8-12 doctors before diagnosis—a gap AI could help close.
- Eric Topol, who shared the piece, predicts we'll be seeing a lot more of this pattern.
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