{
  "id": 3414222,
  "title": "Right Diagnoses, Decorative Reasoning:A Perturbation Audit of Medical Chain-of-Thought",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/right-diagnoses-decorative-reasoning-a-perturbation-audit-of-medical",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-25T16:37:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24790v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Clinicians read chain-of-thought (CoT) rationales as evidence of medical reasoning, but whether the visible chain plays that role is rarely tested. General-domain CoT-faithfulness probes ignore clinical cost, and medical LLM evaluations treat the chain as a black box. We close this gap with a medical perturbation audit: a 30-operator battery edits both the chain and the question with clinically…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}