productivity Mar 7, 2026
A practical clinical workflow for converting technical consultation notes into plain-language follow-up instructions patients can actually use.
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Goal
Convert a doctor-facing note into a patient-facing communication artifact.
Workflow
- Separate diagnosis, treatment plan, and follow-up tasks.
- Replace medical shorthand with plain action language.
- Make the medication, warning signs, and next-step timing explicit.
- End with one short review question: what should the patient remember most?
Prompt
`Act as a physician communication assistant. Convert this clinic note into patient instructions with: medicines, precautions, tests, and when to return.`
Why this matters
AI becomes useful in practice when it reduces communication friction without diluting medical accuracy.