#52 - When "Once A Day" Becomes Eleven Pills
What if medical AI looks unstoppable right up until you change the language? One year into Code & Cure, we pull on an unsettling thread: a model can score around 90% on an English medical exam and then crash to about 55% on the same exam in French, with similar drops across other languages. That should give us pause—healthcare doesn't happen in a single language, and patient safety can't ride on English-only competence.
We dig into why this happens by putting human clinicians next to large language models. A doctor doesn't become "less medical" when they switch to Spanish or French; fluency…
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