4 papers
MedRedFlag: Investigating how LLMs Redirect Misconceptions in Real-World Health Communication
Sraavya Sambara, Yuan Pu, Ayman Ali +3
Real-world health questions from patients often unintentionally embed false assumptions or premises. In such cases, safe medical communication typically involves redirection: addre…
Medical Model Synthesis Architectures: A Case Study
Katherine M. Collins, Marlene Berke, Ilia Sucholutsky +6
Medicine is rife with high-stakes uncertainty. Doctors routinely make clinical judgments and decisions that juggle many fundamental unknowns, like predictions about what might be c…
What Patients Really Ask: Exploring the Effect of False Assumptions in Patient Information Seeking
Raymond Xiong, Furong Jia, Lionel Wong +1
Patients are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to seek answers to their healthcare-related questions. However, benchmarking efforts in LLMs for question answering oft…
Retrieval-augmented systems can be dangerous medical communicators
Lionel Wong, Ayman Ali, Raymond Xiong +3
Patients have long sought health information online, and increasingly, they are turning to generative AI to answer their health-related queries. Given the high stakes of the medica…