Anna Dijkstra

I think the horse has bolted on this one. Patients are going to use LLMs in time. Drs have had to deal with “dr google” - which was historically probably very poor - but I hope that good clinicians will be more open to well informed patients asking good question.

Implications? (Granted it’s a small study - but well designed)

1. Giving LLM decision support to physicians won’t necessarily improve performance

2. What would happen, I wonder, if patients had access, to the outputs, empowering them with a second opinion?

Large Language Model Influence on Diagnostic Reasoning This randomized clinical trial evaluates the diagnostic performance of physicians with use of a large language model compared with conventional resources.

“This randomized clinical trial found that physician use of an…LLM chatbot did not improve diagnostic reasoning on challenging clinical cases, despite the LLM alone significantly outperforming physician participants”

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