Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!jwb From: jwb@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: Diagnosing strategies for humans? Message-ID: <3394@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 21-Oct-84 10:32:54 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3394 Posted: Sun Oct 21 10:32:54 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Oct-84 07:10:57 EDT References: umn-cs.568 Lines: 22 Dr. Weed was Chairman of the Dept of Medicine and the University of Vermont for a while. He and Dr. J Willis Hurst of Emory University Medical School were two of the major proponents of so called "problem oriented medical records" probably better called "problem structured medical records". These days, most medical records contain elements of this. Some feel that Dr. Weed and others were somewhat overzealous, concentrating too much on the form of the record and not enough on the content. I once went to a Medical School Grand Rounds (case presentation) where Dr. Hurst was the invited guest and discussant. He spent a lot of time on the relative size of the writing of the various problems and sub-problems (I am talking about the size of the letters used to write them) and not much time about what was wrong with the patient. I am surprised that someone from CMU has not commented on their project to study the thinking processes of Dr. Jack Meyers of the U of Pittsburg with an eye toward including these processes in an expert system for diagnosis. Is this project still ongoing? Jack Buchanan (MD) Medicine and Biomedical Engineering Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!jwb {usenet} jwb.mcnc@CSNET-RELAY {or whatever the correct ARPA or CSNET syntax is}