How this works, and what it can and cannot do
- The person is scripted, not an AI. Every line they say was written in advance for teaching. Only their reaction changes with how you answered.
- A phrase-checker reads your answer, in your browser. It looks for what the field teaches (reflecting what you heard, asking an open question, staying, handing clinical matters to the care team) and for what it warns against (false reassurance, prognosis, medicine advice, promises you cannot keep, taking sides).
- It is a mirror, not a judge. It can miss a good answer worded differently. After every turn you can open a possible response and decide for yourself.
- Nothing leaves your device. No audio is recorded, no model is called, and what you type is not stored unless you download or print it. If you want to speak instead of type, use your keyboard’s own dictation.
- All six people are invented. This is practice for the conversation, not clinical training and not a test of competence or a credential.
Choose a conversation
Practice
- Reflect first, then ask
- Stay, and say you are staying
- Be honest about what you can offer
- Help the person take the question to the right professional
Hand to the care team
- Any change in breathing, pain or condition
- Any question about medicine or how long
- Any thought of self-harm: the team now, and 988 or 911 if there is danger
- Anything you would be tempted to keep secret