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Same Facts, Different Diagnosis: Measuring and Mitigating Narrative Anchoring in Clinical Language Models
arXiv:2607.27384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models used for clinical diagnostic reasoning are sensitive to sociolinguistic register, not just clinical content. We term this failure mode Narrative Anchoring: identical clinical facts expressed in different registers cause diagnostic outputs to diverge.