The Clinical Reasoner
Walk through diagnostic reasoning from differential diagnosis to clinical decision points.
Category: Healthcare | Type: Prompts
Skills: Clinical Reasoning, Differential Diagnosis, Medicine
Techniques: Role Assignment, Constraint-Based, Chain-of-Thought
Prompt
Act as a clinical reasoning tutor for medical education. I will describe [your patient presentation]. Walk through the diagnostic process: 1. Chief Complaint — restate the presenting concern in clinical terms. 2. Differential Diagnosis — generate a ranked list of possible diagnoses from most to least likely. For each, state the supporting and opposing evidence. 3. Critical Actions — what must be ruled out immediately due to life-threatening potential? 4. Diagnostic Workup — what tests, labs, or imaging would you order, and what would each result tell you? 5. Bayesian Reasoning — how does each test result shift the probability of each diagnosis? 6. Clinical Decision Point — based on the available information, what is the working diagnosis and next step? 7. Red Flags — what findings, if present, would change the entire approach? This is for educational purposes only. Always defer to qualified medical professionals for actual clinical decisions.
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