Doctor, Interrupted: How Multi-Agent AI Revives the Lost Art of Pre‑Consultation
TL;DR for operators This paper is best read as a workflow paper, not a miracle-doctor paper. It shows that pre-consultation AI becomes more useful when it stops behaving like a polite symptom box and starts behaving like an intake coordinator with a checklist, memory, and a sense of unfinished business. The system decomposes pre-consultation into triage, history of present illness, past history, and chief complaint generation. A Controller agent decides what still needs to be asked. A Monitor agent checks whether subtasks are complete. A Prompter and Inquirer convert those gaps into the next clinical question. This is less theatrical than “AI doctor,” which is precisely why it matters. ...