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From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins)
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> 
> Well, maybe I should have made my point clearer.  It is my impression
> that most people have opinions on things, so I would assume that most
> doctors have an opinion on what they *think* is the best treatment for
> a particular disease for a particular person.  

I don't think this is necessarily true.  There are almost certainly
tradeoffs to every treatment, and in this case, the treatments are
still at least somewhat in the experimental phase (or they wouldn't
be running experiments using them!), so some of the tradeoffs are
unknown.  What's the best computer language?  Perhaps for a particular
application, a LISP program would be the most natural, but would be
twice as slow as a C program to do the same thing.  Things are never
black in white.  In medicine I would think this is at least, if not
more, true than in most other areas of life.  What's your favorite
brand of hot dogs?  (Me, I just buy the cheapest one, and if two are
the same price, I choose randomly.)

	marie desjardins park