What do I need to use Second Opinion Request?

The situation; The relationship; The logistics; What's driving the wish.

Is Second Opinion Request free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Second Opinion Request

Q: How do I know the Second Opinion Request output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The warranted check is honest both directions — including when a second opinion mostly adds delay; The raising-it script contains zero apology and zero accusation; The records checklist includes actual images/slides, not just reports; The disagreement structure sends each opinion back to the other doctor, with verbatim questions.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-lifeadmin

Get a second medical opinion without torching the first relationship — when it's warranted, how to raise it with the current doctor, the records package the consulting doctor needs, and how to weigh two opinions that disagree. Use when asked should I get a second opinion, how do I ask for a second opinion without offending my doctor, what records do I send, or the two doctors disagree now what. Produces the warranted-or-not framing, the raising-it scripts, the records checklist, and the disagreement-weighing framework.

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What to give it

▸The situation — the diagnosis or recommended treatment, in the user's words; the stakes (surgery, long-term medication, serious diagnosis, "watch and wait" they're uneasy about)

▸The relationship — how the current doctor has responded to questions so far; whether the user fears the conversation (common, and addressable with the script)

▸The logistics — insurance shape, timeline pressure (some decisions have real clocks; the plan respects them), and access to a relevant specialist or center

▸What's driving the wish — uncertainty, a gut mismatch, something read, a family push — it shapes which questions the consult should answer

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The warranted check is honest both directions — including when a second opinion mostly adds delay

✓The raising-it script contains zero apology and zero accusation

✓The records checklist includes actual images/slides, not just reports

✓The disagreement structure sends each opinion back to the other doctor, with verbatim questions

✓Timeline pressure is respected — diligence that misses a treatment window isn't diligence

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not weigh in on which opinion is medically right — structure the questions; the medicine is the doctors'

Do not script sneaking around the first doctor — the direct version works better and keeps the records flowing

Do not recommend specific physicians or centers — types and criteria only

Do not treat disagreement as a crisis — it's the process working; the framework exists for exactly this

Do not let diligence become avoidance — serial opinion-shopping past two (occasionally three) is a decision not being made, and the artifact should say so

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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