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When the researchers began trying to write a decision-making computer program three years ago, says Dr. William Schwartz, chairman of the department of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and spokesman for the group,* they discovered that little was known about how physicians arrived at their complex decisions. "Medical school emphasizes the acquisition of specific factual data," Schwartz says, "but it has paid remarkably little attention to the decision-making process." Thus he and his colleagues are analyzing how a doctor decides on such serious treatment as abdominal surgery...
...highly skilled physician. Using acute kidney failure as an experimental model, the research group programmed the machine to weigh the risks and benefits of various tests and treatments and to consider such factors as the patient's attitude toward surgery. "We find it is like playing chess," says Schwartz. "Doctors don't make just one isolated move, they have to look ahead at what else is likely to happen...
Finally, one might object to the fact that Gary Schwartz was contacted by The Crimson to the exclusion, it seems, of any representative of the campus gay group. Whatever theory of homosexual etiology Schwartz discussed with your unnamed reporter, I can hardly believe he claimed--as the article implies--that it applies to every homosexual. This is neither the time nor the place to discuss whether one needs to explain homosexual behavior at all. But even if, as Schwartz suggests, there should be a causal link between hormone composition and homosexuality, one might more fairly describe it as a different...
...Gary Schwartz, assistant professor of personality psychology, yesterday called the APA decision "amazing." He speculated however that the APA's motivations were political, not psychobiological...
...Schwartz cited recent studies which show that hormonal imbalance may cause psychobiological changes, including predisposed homosexual behavior. "Of all the things the APA could have declassified, I'm surprised they picked homosexuality," he said...