Transcript of Lawrence Weed's 1971 Talk on Medical Decision Making, Process, Sense, and Records

Lawrence Weed MD made major contributions to American medical practice and policy, by developing the SOAP approach to patient charts, by establishing a pioneering company for medical decision making software, and by writing several books on medical process and practice (here, here, here).

Larry Weed’s Wikipedia page is here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Weed

He died in 2017 at age 93.   His NYT obit is here:  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/science/obituary-lawrence-weed-dead-patient-information.html   

See also a remembrance in Health Affairs, here.

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/07/11/what-larry-weed-understood-about-the-medical-profession-a-remembrance/

And another blog remembrance here:
http://www.meaningfulhitnews.com/2017/06/18/health-informatics-pioneer-larry-weed-dies-93

Click below for an unofficial transcript of his Youtube talk (17 pages, 9000 words).  Read the transcript in the cloud: here.  Video here.

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The Youtube video shown above is on the VisualDX company channel,

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE9HVu0DMlKf8GTYU1pFH2w

 and the company website is here:   https://www.visualdx.com/