KevinMD December 21, 2024
Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA

Around Christmas time every year, The BMJ publishes lighthearted feature articles and original, peer-reviewed research intended to ease physicians into the holiday season and help them escape the drudgery of practice. The 2024 collection of articles is no exception, with enticing papers like “How to transport a polar bear, and other idiosyncrasies in providing emergency medical services in the Arctic” and “Living happily ever after? The hidden health risks of Disney princesses.”

My favorite article is: “Age against the machine—susceptibility of large language models to cognitive impairment: cross sectional analysis.” This article shows that large language models (LLMs), such as chatbots, perform dismally on a standard cognitive test – the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) – commonly used to screen patients...

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