When medical AI fails outside English

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly positioned as general-purpose medical systems, with demonstrated potential in diagnosis and management reasoning for patient care tasks.

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BMJ Digital Health & AI
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2026-05-01
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjdh-2026-000038
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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
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Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly positioned as general-purpose medical systems, with demonstrated potential in diagnosis and management reasoning for patient care tasks.

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Tokyo University of Information Sciences (JP), Stanford University (US)
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Openalex Percentile: Top 7%
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