An Expanded Framework for Governing Autonomous Clinical Systems Abstract Artificial intelligence in medicine has advanced from narrow diagnostic classifiers to agentic systems capable of longitudinal clinical reasoning, autonomous planning, and sustained patient interaction. As these systems approach and, on certain…
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