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ArticleNature medicine2026

Prospective evidence for conversational medical AI is hard, but non-negotiable.

Mike Schaekermann, Anil Palepu, Adam Rodman, Ami Parekh, Ethan Goh, Shekoofeh Azizi, Yun Liu, Sunny Virmani, Christina Chen, Dale R Webster and 4 more

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Article in Nature medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Mike SchaekermannGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA. mikeshake@google.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1735-9680
Anil PalepuGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4720-8787
Adam RodmanDepartment of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Ami ParekhIncluded Health, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Ethan GohGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-7491-4257
Shekoofeh AziziGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7447-6031
Yun LiuGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4079-8275
Sunny VirmaniGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Christina ChenGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6786-0054
Dale R WebsterGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3023-8824
Joëlle BarralGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Avinatan HassidimGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Yossi MatiasGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3960-6002
Po-Hsuan Cameron ChenGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA. cameronchen@google.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID42736437

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