Diagnosis Navigation Question Pack

For the method in After a Diagnosis: Use AI to Organize Questions, Not Interpret Your Future. Use AI only to organize and define terms - never to interpret what your diagnosis means for you.

Not for

Estimating prognosis, comparing treatment options, or judging how serious your situation is. Those questions go to your care team.

Section 1: What I was told directly (source and date required)

Section 2: Term glossary (general definitions only)

Section 3: What remains unclear or wasn’t addressed

Section 4: Questions for my care team, grouped by urgency

Need answered before any near-term decision

Can wait for a scheduled follow-up

Section 5: Contacts

• Primary clinician / specialist, and how to reach them:
• Care coordinator or nurse line, if any:
• Pharmacy:
• Emergency instructions given by my care team (copied exactly, not paraphrased):

The four prompts to reuse

1. Organize what you remember

Here is what I remember being told during my diagnosis appointment,
in no particular order: [paste your rough recollection]. Organize
this into a simple timeline of what was said, in plain language. Do
not add any medical interpretation, likely outcome, or additional
information I did not provide - only reorganize what I actually
remember.

2. Build a general term glossary

Here are terms from my diagnosis or discharge paperwork that I do not
fully understand: [list the terms]. For each one, give a short,
plain-language definition of what the term generally means in
medicine. Do not relate any of these terms to my specific case or
suggest what they might mean for my situation - I only want general
definitions I can bring to my care team.

3. Separate known from unclear

Here is what I was told: [paste your organized notes]. Sort this into
two lists: "What I was told directly" and "What remains unclear or
wasn't addressed." Do not fill in the second list with guesses - if
something wasn't addressed, it belongs in the unclear list, not
answered from general knowledge.

4. Turn uncertainty into questions

Turn each item on this "unclear" list into a specific question I can
ask my care team: [paste the unclear list]. Keep each question focused
on one uncertainty and do not combine unrelated issues. Do not limit
the length of the care team's answer; some clinically important
questions need a longer explanation.

Before your next appointment

• Every fact in Section 1 has a source and date
• No term definition in Section 2 guesses at what it means for my specific case
• Nothing in Section 3’s unclear list was filled in with an AI guess
• Questions are grouped by what I need answered soonest, not by a model’s urgency judgment