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A model beats hundreds of physicians on real clinical cases

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Harvard and Beth Israel researchers pitted a reasoning model against hundreds of physicians on real clinical cases and found it outperformed both the doctors and older models across diagnosis and management, while DeepMind launched an AI co-clinician for supervised care teams.

Reporting date: 2026-05-01 (not necessarily the event date)

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A model beats hundreds of physicians on real clinical cases
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Reporting date: 2026-05-01
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Claim: Harvard and Beth Israel researchers pitted a reasoning model against hundreds of physicians on real clinical cases and found it outperformed both the doctors and older models across diagnosis and management, while DeepMind launched an AI co-clinician for supervised care teams.
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