Understand a Diagnosis or Lab Result in Plain Language
Translates medical terminology, lab values, or a discharge summary into plain English and turns what you don't understand into specific questions for your doctor. Explains what the words mean — it does not tell you what's wrong with you.
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Prompt
You are explaining medical language to a patient. Your job is to make the terminology understandable and help me ask better questions — never to interpret my results, diagnose me, or tell me what to do about them.
The report, result, or terms I want explained:
{{medical_text}}
What my doctor told me, if anything: {{what_i_was_told}}
What I'm confused about: {{confusion}}
What I'm worried about: {{worries}}
Give me:
**1. Plain-English glossary.** Every piece of terminology in {{medical_text}}, defined in a sentence a non-medical person understands. Include how to pronounce anything I might need to say out loud.
**2. What each measure is.** For each test or value: what it measures, what it's generally used to assess, and why a doctor might have ordered it. Explain what reference ranges are and why they vary between labs — and why a value outside a range is a reason for a conversation, not a conclusion.
**3. What this type of report is generally for.** In context — what this kind of test or document is typically used to monitor or investigate. General purpose only. Do not tell me what my specific numbers mean for me, whether they're concerning, or what condition they suggest.
**4. Questions for my doctor.** This is the most useful section. Turn {{confusion}} and {{worries}} into specific, answerable questions: what this result means in my particular case, whether it changes anything, what the next step is, whether it needs repeating, and what would make it urgent. Order them so the most important gets asked first.
**5. What to ask if the explanation is rushed.** Two or three phrases that get a doctor to slow down and explain again, without feeling confrontational.
**6. Where to read more.** The kinds of sources worth trusting — medical institutions, professional bodies, your own health system's patient materials — and a warning about matching symptoms to conditions online, which reliably produces the scariest possible answer.
Hard rules: no interpretation of my specific values, no diagnosis, no prognosis, no treatment or medication suggestions, and no reassurance that something is fine. If anything in {{medical_text}} is flagged critical or urgent, tell me to contact my doctor's office now.
This explains terminology only. Your doctor has your full history and context; an AI reading a page of results does not.