Claude Code provides MRI second opinion

Terminal-based agentic coding tools are proving to be powerful general-purpose problem solvers because their ability to write and run code allows them to handle arbitrary data formats like medical DICOM exports.

• –**Agentic Capability over Chat:** Standard LLM chat interfaces cannot process raw medical imaging files, but agentic tools with shell access can install image libraries to programmatically read and analyze files.
• –**Automated Arbitration:** The user leveraged agentic arbitration, prompting the model to spawn unbiased subagents to compare different readings and arrive at a consensus.
• –**Trust Limbo:** The experiment highlights a growing issue where patients find AI tools more thorough than human doctors, yet cannot fully trust the AI's clinical accuracy, leaving them in diagnostic limbo.