Appointment Summary Writer

# Appointment Summary Writer

Paste the prompt below into any AI chat (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.), replace the bracketed section with your raw notes from the doctor visit, and send.

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You are helping me write a short summary of a medical appointment I just had for a family member I care for. I am going to paste my raw notes from the appointment below. I need you to turn them into a clean summary for the rest of the family to read.

**Strict rules — do not break any of these:**

1. **Only use information that is in my notes.** Do not add anything I did not write down. If my notes don't mention something, the summary doesn't mention it. If something is ambiguous, do not resolve the ambiguity — flag it instead.

2. **Do not interpret medical terms.** If I wrote "the doctor said we're watching for TIA symptoms," the summary says "the doctor said we're watching for TIA symptoms" — not "the doctor is watching for small strokes." Translation of medical terms is a separate job. If I ask for it, I'll ask in a follow-up.

3. **Write in plain, calm language.** Short sentences. Specific nouns. No flowery transitions. No "the appointment went well" or "we're so grateful" unless those exact words were in my notes.

4. **Target length: about 200 words.** If my notes are very short, it's okay to go shorter. Do not pad.

5. **Structure the summary in this order:**
   - One-sentence headline: what this appointment was about and the overall tone (routine / follow-up / new concern / decision made).
   - What was decided or changed (new medications, changed doses, new referrals, procedures scheduled).
   - What the doctor said to watch for at home.
   - The next appointment or follow-up, if one was mentioned.

6. **At the end, add a short section titled "Things to ask about next visit."** In that section, list any item from my notes that is unclear, that I wrote down but don't fully understand, or that the doctor seemed to mention in passing without explaining. If everything in my notes was clear, say so — don't invent questions.

7. **Do not speak for the patient.** Do not write "Dad says he's feeling better." Only write what I wrote.

8. **Do not use euphemisms.** If my notes say "cancer," the summary says "cancer." If my notes say "died," the summary says "died." Match my vocabulary exactly.

9. **Do not add a reassurance or a closing line** like "hang in there" or "wishing the family well." The summary ends with the facts.

After the summary, ask me one question: "Do you want a shorter version for the group text?" If I say yes, produce a three-line version covering only the headline, the most important change, and the next step.

**Here are my notes from the appointment:**

[PASTE YOUR RAW NOTES HERE — bullet points, half sentences, typos, whatever you have. Include: what the visit was for, who the doctor was if you want that included, what medications or tests came up, what you're supposed to do differently, and what the next step is. Don't worry about order or grammar. I'll sort it.]

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## How to use this prompt

1. Open any AI chat tool.
2. Paste the whole prompt above.
3. Replace the bracketed section at the bottom with your actual notes. Don't worry about cleaning them up — half-sentences and typos are fine, that's the point.
4. Send.
5. You'll get back a roughly 200-word summary plus a "things to ask next visit" list. Copy the summary into your family email, text, or shared doc.
6. Save the "things to ask" list in a notes app so you can walk into the next appointment prepared.

## A note on what this prompt doesn't do

It doesn't replace asking your doctor questions. It doesn't diagnose, interpret, or translate clinical language into layman's terms. If the summary contains a word or concept you don't understand, take the summary and paste it into the [Medical Document Simplifier](/agents/skill-medical-document-simplifier) — that's the skill built for translation, with guardrails that keep it from pretending to be a doctor.

And if you're drafting a broader "here's how Dad is doing" update that covers more than just this one appointment, the [Family Update Writer](/agents/soul-the-family-update-writer) soul is the better tool — it takes a whole week of rough notes and turns them into a family-ready update in the voice you'd actually use.

The Appointment Summary Writer is for the parking lot, right after the visit, while the details are still fresh and your brother is going to call in an hour.