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From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP (Richard Smith)
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Subject: Re: Diagnosing strategies for humans?
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 21:00:25 EDT
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In response to aam and his wife in vet school:

Dr. Lawrence Weed wrote a book called something like "Problem Oriented
Medical Diagnosis" that my wife vaguely remembers from medical school.
She seems to remember positive things about the book, but we don't seem
to have a copy of it around the house anywhere.

Last summer we encountered a fellow in West Virginia who is using a
software package on an IBM-PC called the "Problem Knowledge Coupler"
(TM of 'PKC Corp') which claims to be an embodiment of Weed's work.
This system claims to be somewhat related to the PROMIS system developed
at some rural New England state university (U Vermont? UNH?).

    QUESTION TO THE REST OF US:  Is anyone familiar with this
    work?  My vague impression is that the 'automated' part
    may be little more than inspired use of a database of clinical
    articles.

If anyone knows, I'd love to find out.

Rick.