Clinical Notes as Narratives: Implications for Large Language Models in Healthcare

Teva D Brender^{1

2}, Leo A Celi^{3

4

5}, Julien M Cobert^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ San Francisco Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. teva.brender@ucsf.edu.
² Internal Medicine Residency Program, 505 Parnassus Ave., Rm. M1480, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0119, USA. teva.brender@ucsf.edu.
³ Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁴ Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Anesthesia Service, San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁷ San Francisco Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Editorial

Teva D Brender et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Feb.

. 2025 Feb;40(3):687-689.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-024-09093-y. Epub 2024 Oct 4.

Teva D Brender^{1

2}, Leo A Celi^{3

4

5}, Julien M Cobert^{6

7}

¹ San Francisco Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. teva.brender@ucsf.edu.
² Internal Medicine Residency Program, 505 Parnassus Ave., Rm. M1480, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0119, USA. teva.brender@ucsf.edu.
³ Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁴ Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Anesthesia Service, San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁷ San Francisco Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

Declarations:. Ethics Approval:: Not applicable. Conflict of Interest:: The authors declare that they do not have a conflict of interest.

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