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- some explanations on adx.lsp
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- The idea behind this program came into existence, when a poor radiologist
- got tired in looking up differentials in thick, heavy books.
- He spent some time in learning lisp and created a fragmentary
- database of the things he needed: diseases and differentials.
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- A differential is a list of diseases with ONE common symptom,
- fever, for example, and quite a few medical textbooks consist of
- nothing more than these 'differentials'.
- Now if a patient has TWO symptoms , you combine the two differentials
- of his symptoms and voila there is a DIAGNOSIS, most of the time.
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- This is exactly how this small program works:
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- You enter a symptom and get a list of diagnoses; you continue with a
- second and third symptom until you arrive at one diagnosis (thats fine)
- or you are left with a list of about 2 to 5 diagnoses.
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- But there is some help in this cases, too.
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- The program will give you a list of symptoms, which occur only in
- the first diagnosis but not in the second and vice versa, and sometimes
- the age of the patient will be helpful, because some diseases will occur
- only in adults but not children.
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- WARNING:
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- Don't try to treat a patient or yourself only on the base of this program !
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- !!!! IT DOES NOT REPLACE A DOCTOR !!!!
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- Look at the symptom-file first; the spelling of the symptoms is not quite
- ordinary language and the '-' between the words are mandatory.
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- The program runs on an ATARI with 4 MB, so if you run out of memory, then
- don't blame me !
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- Files included:
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- ADX.TXT This text
- ADX.LSP The program.
- ASYMPTOM.TXT The implemented symptoms
- DD.TXT The implemented differentials
- DISEASES.TXT The implemented diseases
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- Files needed:
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- XLISP 2.0 by Dave Betz, a great program !
- you'll find it on COMPUSERVE ( GO AIEXPERT)
- UL.ARC by Larry Mulcahy, just wonderful !
- a bunch of XLISP routines you'll need.
- (GO AIEXPERT)
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- Program loading
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- 1) Load XLISP 2.0 and the files of UL.ARC.
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- 2) in XLISP type
- (load "ad.lsp") followed by <Return> or <CR>
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- 3) Start the program with
- (make-it) followed by <Return> or <CR>
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- 4) wait until the data files are loaded, then
- follow the MENU.
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- 5) in case of panic, stop with <control-C>
- (or ^C)
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- 6) to restart the program without loading the data-files again
- type
- (top-round) followed by <Return> or <CR>
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- Any comments and suggestions are heavily appreciated
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- Silvio Marugg 72037,606
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