Claude Code flags a surgeon’s MRI diagnosis as wrong in a personal test
A developer fed a 266 MB shoulder MRI into Claude Code’s Opus 4.8, letting the model install imaging libraries and run a custom analysis. Within an hour Opus reported an intact subscapularis tendon, directly contradicting the clinician’s Grade III partial tear diagnosis. The experiment shows LLMs can process DICOM data, but their clinical reliability remains unproven.