Will LADLE diagnose a patient for me?

It can walk through a differential if you ask. But the clinical decision is yours, not the model's. Modern LLMs still confabulate specific citations, get drug interactions subtly wrong, and lack the context a real chart gives a real clinician. Use it as a thought-organizer, not a diagnostic tool.

Can I use it for prior auth letters?

Yes. Standard workflow: paste the criteria you're addressing, the relevant clinical context (anonymized), get a draft letter that maps clinical to criteria. Edit for accuracy. Faster than writing from scratch.

How is this different from a medical AI?

Medical AIs (differential-generation tools, DDx aids) train on medical data and often integrate with EHRs. LADLE is general-purpose — good at writing, weaker on medicine-specific accuracy. If your work needs deep clinical integration, a purpose-built tool is right. If your work needs a strong writing assistant that happens to handle medical topics competently, LADLE is fine.

USE CASE · PHYSICIANS

The physician's second pair of eyes — for writing, not for care.

LADLE won't diagnose your patient. It'll draft the letter to the specialist, summarize the literature you don't have time to read, and rewrite your patient handout at a 6th-grade reading level. The clinical work stays yours.

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MODELClaude Sonnet

USE FORDocumentation, letters, literature

DON'T USE FORDiagnosis, treatment decisions

REGULATORYNot HIPAA-BAA; anonymize PHI

CONTEXT200K tokens — whole chart sections

SPEED5-10s for typical drafts

PATIENT LETTERS · REFERRALS

Draft the letter you don't have time to write.

Paste the relevant chart context (anonymized), specify the recipient and the ask, get a professional draft in the register the specialist expects. Edit for clinical accuracy — the writing work is done.

Draft a referral letter to endocrinology for a patient with newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes, HbA1c 9.2, initial metformin trial. Include the key labs and prior history. Professional, concise, one page.

LITERATURE REVIEW

The 30-minute lit search, done in five.

Paste the abstracts from your search results, ask the specific clinical question, get a structured synthesis. Not a substitute for reading the papers you'll act on — a triage layer so you know which ones to actually read.

I have 8 abstracts from a PubMed search on SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with heart failure and diabetes. My specific question: is empagliflozin superior to dapagliflozin for HF outcomes in this population? Give me a structured synthesis.

PATIENT COMMUNICATION

Rewrite the handout at the reading level your patient can actually use.

Paste the technical description, ask for a 6th-grade reading-level version, get a version that's still accurate and doesn't talk down. Same info; different register.

Rewrite this discharge instruction at a 6th-grade reading level. Original: 'Patient should adhere to a low-sodium diet, monitor daily weights, and report any weight gain exceeding 3 pounds within 24 hours or 5 pounds within a week.'

WHY THIS EXISTS

LADLE isn't a clinical tool. It's an assistant for the writing work around care. $8 of every subscription is earmarked into a meal fund on the road to a real partnership with the hunger-relief charity we select — monthly fund report published.

Questions.

No — we don't have a Business Associate Agreement (BAA). Don't paste PHI. For any patient context, anonymize before you paste. LADLE is fine for de-identified drafting, literature review, and general clinical reasoning; it's not the tool for anything with identifiable patient data.

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