Interview with Lawrence Weed, MD--The Father of the Problem-Oriented Medical Record Looks Ahead.
Lee Jacobs, MD

During this interview, Dr Weed describes his electronic tool for applying medical knowledge to patient data--“coupling”--to aid the accuracy and completeness of diagnostics and treatment. In addition, he describes his view of the failing of the current medical education system, which fosters a misplaced faith in the efficacy of a physician’s intellect.
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Biostatistics 101: Understanding Data.
David Etzioni, MD, MSHS; Maher A Abbas, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Research studies can generate complex data and results that require analysis to demonstrate the effect of therapies and interventions, to establish the efficacy or limitation of treatments, and to prove or to refute a scientific hypothesis. An understanding of biostatistics is critical to the researcher investigating clinical questions. Equally important is an appreciation of statistics by the reader and interpreter of published studies. This article, the first of a three-part series on statistics for clinicians, notes: types of data: quantitative (continuous or discrete) and qualitative (ordered or discrete); and describes data as measurements of the center and the distribution.
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