Treatment, evidence, imitation, and chat
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23040v2
- Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:25:07 GMT
- Title: Treatment, evidence, imitation, and chat
- Authors: Samuel J. Weisenthal,
- Abstract summary: We discuss approaches to solving the treatment problem, including -- within evidence-based medicine -- trials and observational data.<n>We then discuss how a large language model might be used to solve the treatment problem and highlight some of the challenges that emerge.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: Large language models are thought to have potential to aid in medical decision making. We investigate this here. We start with the treatment problem, the patient's core medical decision-making task, which is solved in collaboration with a healthcare provider. We discuss approaches to solving the treatment problem, including -- within evidence-based medicine -- trials and observational data. We then discuss the chat problem, and how this differs from the treatment problem -- in particular as it relates to imitation. We then discuss how a large language model might be used to solve the treatment problem and highlight some of the challenges that emerge. We finally discuss how these challenges relate to evidence-based medicine, and how this might inform next steps.
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