AI RESEARCH
MedConceal: A Benchmark for Clinical Hidden-Concern Reasoning Under Partial Observability
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.08788v1 Announce Type: new Patient-clinician communication is an asymmetric-information problem: patients often do not disclose fears, misconceptions, or practical barriers unless clinicians elicit them skillfully. Effective medical dialogue. therefore. requires reasoning under partial observability: clinicians must elicit latent concerns, confirm them through interaction, and respond in ways that guide patients toward appropriate care.