When machines explain medicine: Nursing ethics and clinical communication

Xiongwen Yang, Yuanwei Liang, Yijiang Liu, Di Liu, Lin Yang, Bo Zhang, Chuan Xu, Yonghui Wu, Jinyuan He, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guizhou Provincial People, s Hospital, NHC Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Immunological Diseases, Guizhou Provincial People, s Hospital, Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hainan Medical University

Nursing Ethics: An International Journal for Health Care Professionals

Published online on May 27, 2026

Abstract

Nursing Ethics, Ahead of Print.
Clinical communication is ethically consequential, shaping how diagnostic information is interpreted, trusted, and acted upon. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to reformulate technical reports into patient-facing explanations. Although ...