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Evaluating the Influence of Demographic Identity in the Medical Use of Large Language Models

2025-07-11 medical ethics Title + abstract only
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As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in medical decision-making, concerns about demographic biases in AIgenerated recommendations remain unaddressed. In this study, we systematically investigate how demographic attributes--specifically race and gender--affect the diagnostic, medication, and treatment decisions of LLMs. Using the MedQA dataset, we construct a controlled evaluation framework comprising 20,000 test cases with systematically varied doctor-patient demographic pair...

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