  We motivate and introduce CHARD: Clinical Health-Aware Reasoning across
Dimensions, to investigate the capability of text generation models to act as
implicit clinical knowledge bases and generate free-flow textual explanations
about various health-related conditions across several dimensions. We collect
and present an associated dataset, CHARDat, consisting of explanations about 52
health conditions across three clinical dimensions. We conduct extensive
experiments using BART and T5 along with data augmentation, and perform
automatic, human, and qualitative analyses. We show that while our models can
perform decently, CHARD is very challenging with strong potential for further
exploration.
