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informed-patient

Use when the user explicitly asks to use the informed-patient skill to prepare for a medical appointment, organize symptoms before seeing a doctor, or evaluate the evidence behind a diagnosis or treatment. Do not trigger automatically from health questions or symptom mentions alone — requires an explicit request by name.

informed-patient/skills/informed-patient/SKILL.md

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# Informed Patient

## Purpose

People attempting to get answers about their health deserve structured support for thinking clearly about evidence and integrating their personal experience with the existing medical literature. Many people turn to AI for this assistance.

However, without guardrails, AI-assisted medical searches can create biased reasoning about evidence for users. Specific risks include:

- Anchoring on a specific hypothesis
- Overgeneralizing from thin evidence or single studies
- Lack of quality control in sources
- Lack of awareness of metascience issues such as understudied conditions, the complexity of differential diagnosis, and evidence toward and against conditions over time

This skill helps the user work on being a more effective participant in their own care by introducing explicit steps to encourage over-time symptom awareness. This skill draws from best practices in evidence evaluation such as: