This Treatment Works, Right? Evaluating LLM Sensitivity to Patient Question Framing in Medical QA

ArXi:2604.05051v1 Announce Type: cross Patients are increasingly turning to large language models (LLMs) with medical questions that are complex and difficult to articulate clearly. However, LLMs are sensitive to prompt phrasings and can be influenced by the way questions are worded. Ideally, LLMs should respond consistently regardless of phrasing, particularly when grounded in the same underlying evidence.