Personal Health Large Language Models and the Negotiation of Medical Authority in Clinical Care: Opportunities, Risks, and Governance
Wenyi Xie, Jialin Liu, Siru Liu · 2026
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Wenyi Xie, Jialin Liu, and Siru Liu examine patient-facing health language models in a 2026 viewpoint. Unlike one-off chatbots, personal health models build running stories from symptoms, wearable readings, and records that patients choose to link. Patients may trust and bring those stories into visits before any clinician review.
The shift turns the old two-way doctor-patient balance into a three-way negotiation with an algorithmic voice. Benefits include tidier symptom records, better health understanding, and stronger self-care between visits. Risks span wrong or biased advice, clashes with clinical judgement, privacy gaps, and blurred blame when harm follows, prompting calls for clear governance.
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| CREATOR | Wenyi Xie, Jialin Liu, Siru Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50147 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |