AI RESEARCH
Can "AI" Be a Doctor? A Study of Empathy, Readability, and Alignment in Clinical LLMs
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.20791v1 Announce Type: new Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in healthcare, yet their communicative alignment with clinical standards remains insufficiently quantified. We conduct a multidimensional evaluation of general-purpose and domain-specialized LLMs across structured medical explanations and real-world physician-patient interactions, analyzing semantic fidelity, readability, and affective resonance. Baseline models amplify affective polarity relative to physicians (Very Negative: 43.14-45.10% vs.