Thursday 07/02/2026
First thing today was an early walk. Then at 10:30 I met Joanne in the garage and we drove to Sequoia hospital to have my renal cyst drained. This was the third time I’ve met with Dr. Tamrazi, the interventional radiologist, to siphon a half litre of pale yellow liquid out of the cyst in my left kidney.
Previous to this I had checked with one of the medical AIs. OpenEvidence.com, and it had indicated that normal treatment for renal cysts was to aspirate (drain) them and then to “sclerose” (scar) them with an infusion of alcohol to make the sides stick together. I mentioned this today and Dr. Tamrazi said emphatically no, he did not think that would work with my cyst, and he would not recommend it. So there, AI.
Later in the day I put the same prompt into four other AIs. The five different responses were all phrased differently and formatted differently (GPT-5 just loves bulleted lists) but were consistent on treatment of benign renal cysts. But I’m going with the actual doctor.
After my appointment we drove to Allied Arts in Menlo Park. This is a very nice garden restaurant and art gallery. We had an excellent lunch, really good food and service.
Then home where I did a bunch of stuff on the computer, mainly things that we had talked about over lunch. I told Joanne, “it’s great how I come away from these meetings with action items.” Well, she had some also.
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