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We thank K. Ericson, J. Mckay, P. Clardy, R. K. Neelakandan, R. Wong, A. Agrawal, A. Um’rani, J. Hu, G. Espinosa, S. Murphy Gray, M. Moranski Preston, Y. Liu and K. DeSalvo for their feedback and support. This work was funded by Google LLC.
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Obika, D., Kelly, C., Ding, N. et al. Safety principles for medical summarization using generative AI. Nat Med 30, 3417–3419 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03313-y
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