I asked AI (Claude Opus 4.8) to review my MRI

A blogger with right foot pain pointed Claude Code (Opus 4.8, high reasoning) at a folder of 164 DICOM MRI images and a prompt asking for an independent, gold-standard PDF analysis with annotated images for both experts and laypeople. Over about 45 minutes Claude installed Python imaging and PDF packages, read DICOM metadata, rendered and annotated key slices, corrected misplaced arrows using coordinate grids, and generated a 272-line reportlab script for a ten-page report, which it then checked by converting the PDF pages to images. The resulting report largely concurred with the medical provider's findings but was more thorough and included annotated images the provider's report lacked.