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  • In Romania at least I’ve never had to wait for an x-ray or the like on the public system; the health system has a lot of problems but that’s not one of them.

    The hospital buildings might look like they’ve just been demilitarised, the ward won’t have AC, it’ll be 50c, and you’ll be sharing it with a drug addict who spends all night pacing up and down the ward smoking cigarettes - but you’ll wait less time for (and they won’t hesitate to call for) an X-Ray or MRI or whatever than you would in the UK on the NHS.


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    Claude helped me walk me through finding & installing the 3D-Slicer software on my Linux workstation, and a crash course in how to use it to find various interesting bits of my internal anatomy, which was great fun for playing with the CT-scan data I came home with after abdominal surgery.

    It was also pretty helpful at turning medicalese jargon - in the various medical test and report files I accumulated between admission in ER and discharge a few days later - into understandable English. Which was actually pretty cool and reduced my stress levels markedly (that and the opiate pump.)

    Asking an AI to diagnose you from a photo is obviously idiotic. It doesn’t mean they’re useless though; it just means that evidently AI won’t cure stupid.