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The article is a week old, it was already submitted a few days ago, and the problem remains about finding some paper to shed more light into the practice.

A blog article* came out yesterday - but it is not immediately clear whether the author wrote what he understood, or whether he knows more.

But much perplexity remains: «summarization, which is what LLMs generally excel at» (original article); «The LLM ... reads the patient’s records ... and produces a summary or list of facts» (blog). This is possibly the beginning, and some of us will already be scared - as the summarization capabilities we experienced from LLMs were neither intelligent nor reliable. (...Or did new studies come up and determine that LLMs have become finally reliable, if not cognitively proficient, in summarization?)

* https://usmanshaheen.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/reverse-rag-re...




Doctors and statistical processes are always a bad match. (I'm a MD doing medical stats) No, this is not reliable in the slightest.




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