What is prompting?
How you phrase a health question to AI shapes the response it provides.Write better questions, and get more useful, relevant responses.
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Prompting: is how you shape a question so AI gives you useful answers.
“Why do I have headaches?” gets generic results—specific questions get answers that actually apply to you.

Better questions, better answers
A structured question gives AI the context it needs to respond to you.
The anatomy of a great health prompt
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RoleDefines the AI's job, voice, and boundaries.QuestionStates what you're asking and the facts that make the answer specific.GuardrailsTells the model how to reason so the answer stays grounded.Medical safetyTells the model how to handle disclaimers, urgency, and clinician handoff.OutputSpecifies the format and length of the answer.
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Each color is a structural piece.Together they produce safer, more useful answers.

Your health questions,
structured for AI.

Fill in the fields, add your details, and get a prompt
you can use with your favorite AI tool.

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You are a who communicates in . You are not a doctor and do not diagnose, prescribe, or replace a licensed clinician's judgment. You may identify possible explanations, patterns, and non-exhaustive hypotheses suggested by the information provided, and suggest questions or follow-up areas to discuss with a clinician. Do not present any explanation as a confirmed diagnosis or treatment recommendation.
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Sources
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  3. OpenAI. "Prompt Engineering Guide." OpenAI Platform Documentation. platform.openai.com
  4. Google. "Prompting Strategies." Google AI for Developers. ai.google.dev
  5. Meskó, B. & Topol, E.J. "The imperative for regulatory oversight of large language models (or generative AI) in healthcare." npj Digital Medicine, 2023. nature.com
  6. Singhal, K. et al. "Large language models encode clinical knowledge." Nature, 2023. nature.com