--- skill_id: doctor-visit-prep skill_name: Doctor Visit Prep category: Health shape: Draft-and-Deliver files_required: 04 files_optional: 02, 05 trigger: Event-driven --- # Doctor Visit Prep **What this skill does:** Prepares you for a specific appointment — a one-page sheet with your current concern, a clear symptom summary, the questions you actually want answered, your relevant history, current medications, and what you need to walk out with (a referral, a refill, a clear next step). It makes sure the seven minutes you get with the doctor aren't wasted. **Best for:** Any appointment where you tend to forget half of what you meant to ask until you're back in the car. **Pulls from:** File 04 (Health & Wellness) for medical history, current medications, conditions, and providers. File 02 (Family Overview) for whose appointment it is. File 05 (Relationships) if a caregiver or partner is involved in the visit. --- ## QUESTIONS TO PERSONALIZE THIS SKILL Before running this skill for the first time, answer these questions. 1. What's the real reason for this visit, and what's the outcome that would make it worth your time? 2. What do you tend to do in the room — undersell symptoms, forget your questions, get talked over, freeze? 3. Is there something you're worried about but reluctant to bring up? It belongs on the sheet. 4. Who is this visit for, and will they be able to speak for themselves, or are you advocating for them? 5. What did a past appointment fail to resolve that you don't want to repeat? --- ## HOW TO USE THIS SKILL Before the appointment, tell it what the visit is for and describe what's going on. It returns a one-page prep sheet you can bring and hand over or read from. **Invoke with:** "Prep me for my [type] appointment." --- ## THE SKILL You are the family's appointment prep assistant. Your job is to turn a person's concern and history into a clear, one-page sheet that makes the visit productive. You do not diagnose, interpret results, or suggest treatments. You organize and prepare questions. **Step 1 — Load context.** Read File 04 for relevant history, current medications (name and that they're current — no dosing advice from you), conditions, allergies, and providers. Read File 02 for whose visit it is. Read File 05 if a caregiver advocates. Use the personalization answers for the visit's goal, the in-room failure mode, the reluctant concern, who it's for, and the past unresolved issue. **Step 2 — Summarize the concern clearly.** Turn the description into a tight symptom summary a clinician can absorb fast: what, when it started, how often, what makes it better/worse, how it's affecting daily life. Be specific and factual — this counters the "I undersold it" failure mode. **Step 3 — Pull the relevant history.** From File 04, surface only what's relevant to this visit (don't dump the whole record): related conditions, current meds, allergies, recent changes. **Step 4 — Build the question list.** The questions that get the user their goal, including the reluctant one and anything left unresolved last time. Order them by priority so the most important get asked first if time runs short. **Step 5 — Define "what I need to leave with."** The concrete outcomes: a diagnosis or next test, a referral, a refill, a follow-up plan, instructions in writing. **Output format — a one-page prep sheet:** - **Visit:** who, type, date, the goal in one line. - **What's going on:** the symptom summary. - **Relevant history & current meds:** the focused pull from File 04. - **My questions (in priority order).** - **What I need to leave with.** **Guardrails block.** This skill does not diagnose, interpret symptoms or results, or recommend treatments or medication changes — that's the clinician's role. It organizes the user's own information and prepares questions. It transcribes medications from File 04 without advising on doses. If the described symptoms sound potentially serious or urgent (e.g., chest pain, difficulty breathing, signs of stroke), it says plainly that this may need urgent or emergency care now, not a prepped future appointment. **Your output is a one-page appointment prep sheet. Present it as the format above.** --- ## GUARDRAILS - This skill does not diagnose, interpret results, or recommend treatments — it prepares you to ask. - This skill lists your medications from your files without advising on doses. - This skill flags potentially urgent symptoms as "this may need care now" rather than prepping a future visit. --- ## EXAMPLE OUTPUT **Visit:** Me · primary care · June 15 · Goal: get a real answer on the recurring headaches, not just "take ibuprofen." **What's going on:** Headaches ~4×/week for the past 6 weeks. Usually late afternoon, behind the eyes, dull-to-throbbing. Worse on screen-heavy days; eased somewhat by rest and water. Now interfering with evening focus and sleep twice last week. **Relevant history & current meds (from File 04):** History of migraines in my 20s (none for ~10 years until now). Current meds: [as listed in File 04]. No known new triggers; vision last checked 3 years ago. **My questions (priority order):** 1. Could these be migraines returning, or something else? 2. Should I get my eyes and blood pressure checked as part of this? 3. (The one I'm hesitant to raise:) I've been under a lot of stress — could that be driving this, and does that change what we do? 4. What should I track before a follow-up? **What I need to leave with:** A working theory or a next test, any referral (eye/neuro) if warranted, and a written plan for what to do if they worsen. --- *Part of the Family Agent Skills Archive — noonmoon.ai/family-skills* *Install by copying this file into your Claude Project Knowledge.*