The short answer
Readers learn to separate education from diagnosis, protect health data, verify sources, notice emergency symptoms, and prepare questions for a qualified clinician.
The decision standard is simple: preserve the source, state the limits, and make the next human check obvious. A useful article should reduce uncertainty without pretending that every unknown has been resolved.
What to examine
AI can help organize questions or explain general terms, but it can miss context, invent citations, understate urgency, or sound certain where evidence is mixed.
Start with scope. Identify the product, account, audience, jurisdiction, data, and decision involved. Then separate what was directly observed from what a vendor, researcher, regulator, or commentator says. Record dates because AI products, access rules, and prices change quickly.
Do not delay emergency care or change medication because of an AI response. Health decisions need appropriate professional advice.
A practical way to do it
- Remove unnecessary identifying information.
- Ask for uncertainty, alternatives, and sources rather than a verdict.
- Verify with authoritative health guidance and a qualified professional.
Keep the worksheet or test record with the draft. If another editor cannot reproduce the check from the saved evidence, the article is not ready.
Editorial guardrail
Do not fill a missing fact with a plausible sentence. Mark it as unknown, find a stronger source, narrow the claim, or remove it. Commentary belongs in a clearly labeled paragraph after the reported facts, not inside them.
Primary-source reading list
These are starting points, not automatic support for every sentence. The publishing editor must open each cited page and confirm the claim it supports on the day of review.
Bottom line
Readers learn to separate education from diagnosis, protect health data, verify sources, notice emergency symptoms, and prepare questions for a qualified clinician.