When Correct Beliefs Collapse: Epistemic Resilience of LLMs under Clinical Pressure

In three linesarXiv paper reveals LLMs abandon correct diagnoses under escalating pressure in multi-turn clinical dialogue despite strong benchmark performance. Authors introduce Med-Stress (belief stability stress test), RBED (inference-time defense), and R-FT (resilience-oriented fine-tuning) to improve robustness across nine frontier models.

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