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by Raymond P. Wood II and Jerry L. Northern, $15.95, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co, 1979.

LEE D. ROWE, MD, Reviewer
San Francisco

Arch Otolaryngol. 1980;106(5):311.

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The problem-oriented record that was originally introduced by Lawrence Weed in 1968 was designed to systematically organize data, thoughts, and actions of medical care. As a disciplined approach to formulating clinical impressions and plans, it was codified by its author and his disciples into the acronym, SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan). This cleansing of the traditional organ approach to disease has ultimately reached the last outpost of medical specialties, otolaryngology and head and neck surgery.

Its newest disciples have organized the cardinal manifestations of otorhinolaryngologic disease into the SOAP methodology. The result is a symptom-oriented textbook that is designed to serve as an adjunct to standard reference books. The chapters are broadly arranged by symptom complexes, developing specific disease patterns and their management. Neurotology, sensory, and motor disturbances are included along with rhinology, facial trauma, neck masses, and disorders of speech. Apparently it is impossible, however, to escape . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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