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A teenager is putting heart doctors out of business with AI
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The Kid Who's Beating Cardiologists at Their Own Game
Subject: A 14-year-old just made your doctor obsolete (kind of)
You're scrolling through your phone right now.
But what if that same phone could tell you if your heart is about to kill you?
Sounds crazy, right?
A kid from Texas just made it happen.
Here's what everyone's missing
While grown-ups argue about healthcare costs, Siddharth Nandyala built something that makes your cardiologist sweat.
He's 14.
And he just created an app that detects heart disease in 7 seconds.
Not 7 minutes. Not 7 hours. 7 seconds.
Using nothing but your phone's microphone.
The thing that'll mess with your head
CircadiaV (that's what he calls it) has been tested on over 15,000 people.
It's 96% accurate.
Your last doctor visit probably took longer than that just to check you in.
Here's how it works: You put your phone on your chest. It records your heartbeat. AI analyzes the sound. Done.
No expensive machines. No waiting rooms. No insurance drama.
But here's the kicker
This isn't some rich kid's science fair project.
Siddharth tested it in real hospitals in India. Found over 40 people who had no idea they were walking around with heart problems.
The doctors confirmed it later with their fancy equipment.
Same results.
The part that should scare you
Most heart disease gets caught too late.
By the time you feel chest pain, you're already in trouble.
But this kid figured out how to catch it early. When you can still do something about it.
And he's not stopping there.
What else he's building (this is wild)
Remember, he's still 14.
He's also working on:
A prosthetic arm you control with your thoughts (costs $300 instead of $400,000)
A fall detection system that beats Apple Watch
An AI that spots diabetic eye problems
Oh, and he runs a company teaching other kids to build AI.
Because apparently being a medical revolutionary wasn't enough.
The uncomfortable truth
While we're arguing about whether AI will take our jobs, this kid is using it to save lives.
He's not waiting for permission. Not asking for approval.
Just building stuff that works.
And it's making traditional healthcare look slow and expensive.
Here's what nobody's talking about
Siddharth got letters from Obama and Biden.
The chief minister of his home state in India personally met with him.
Oracle and ARM certified him as an AI professional.
He's the youngest person to ever get those certifications.
But the real story isn't the recognition.
It's what happens when smart kids stop playing video games and start solving real problems.
The question you should be asking
What if healthcare didn't have to be complicated?
What if catching heart disease was as easy as taking a selfie?
What if the solutions we need are already here, built by people we're not paying attention to?
This kid just proved it's possible.
The question is: what are you going to do with that information?
P.S. CircadiaV is still in clinical trials. But when it hits the market, your phone might become the best doctor you never knew you had.
P.P.S. Siddharth is a freshman at UT Dallas studying computer science. Most freshmen are figuring out how to do laundry. He's rewriting medicine.
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