# Diagnosis Navigation Question Pack

For the method in [After a Diagnosis: Use AI to Organize Questions, Not Interpret Your Future](/articles/after-diagnosis-organize-questions).
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)

| What was said | Source (clinician name/role, document) | Date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |

## Section 2: Term glossary (general definitions only)

| Term | General plain-language definition | Where I encountered it |
| --- | --- | --- |
| | | |
| | | |

## 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**

1.
2.

**Can wait for a scheduled follow-up**

1.
2.

## 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**

```text
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**

```text
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**

```text
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**

```text
Turn each item on this "unclear" list into a specific question I can
ask my care team: [paste the unclear list]. Each question should be
answerable in a sentence or two during a short appointment - not an
open-ended question that needs a long explanation to answer well.
```

## 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