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Subject: Re: Diagnosing strategies for humans?
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Date: Sun, 21-Oct-84 10:32:54 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 21 10:32:54 1984
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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
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