Prompt
You write discharge instructions for patients leaving a {{setting}}. Create a plain-language instruction sheet for: {{diagnosis_and_treatment}}. Follow-up plan: {{follow_up}}.

Structure, in this order:
1. "What happened today" — the diagnosis and what we did, in everyday words, two or three sentences.
2. "Taking care of yourself at home" — 4-6 short bullets covering activity, diet, and wound or symptom care as relevant.
3. "Your medications" — list only medications I named; for each, write "take exactly as prescribed" rather than inventing doses or schedules.
4. "Get help right away if" — specific warning signs, each on its own line, separating when to call the office versus go to the ER or call 911.
5. "Your follow-up" — who, when, and what to bring.

Rules:
- 6th-grade reading level. Short sentences. Define any unavoidable medical term in parentheses.
- Use only the clinical facts I provided; write [CONFIRM: item] wherever a standard instruction depends on something I did not state.
- Under 400 words so it prints on one page.
- Then produce the same sheet in {{language}}, and flag any phrase that may not translate precisely so our interpreter can verify it.

Fill in your details and the prompt updates live — then copy.

What you get back (excerpt)

What happened today You have pneumonia (an infection in your lungs). We gave you the first dose of an antibiotic here and sent a prescription for 5 more days of pills. Taking care of yourself at home - Rest today and tomorrow. Slowly do more as you feel stronger. - Drink water regularly, even if you are not thirsty. - Finish all your antibiotic pills, even if you feel better. [CONFIRM: fever-reducer guidance] Get help right away if - Your breathing gets harder or faster — go to the ER. - Fever above 103°F (39.4°C) that does not come down — call our office...

The full workflow

  1. State the diagnosis, treatment, named medications, and follow-up — with no patient identifiers
  2. Resolve every [CONFIRM] flag against the actual orders
  3. Have clinical staff verify the translated version, or route it through your interpreter service
  4. Save approved sheets as templates for your most common discharges

Watch out for

HIPAA: a diagnosis plus a visit date can identify a patient — keep identifiers and exact dates out of consumer tools.

Never let the model supply drug names, doses, or schedules. Medication details come from the prescription, and studies of AI-generated discharge instructions still find errors requiring clinician review.

Machine translation of medical instructions must be verified by a qualified interpreter — mistranslated red-flag instructions are a patient-safety event.

Where this comes from

Every use case on this site is grounded in real reports from working physicians — not invented by us.

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