We criticize our CASSANDRA architecture as innexible and incapable of supporting communications in any realistic sense. We argue for our position and propose a new agent structure.

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines give recommendations about what to do in various medical situations, including therapeutical recommendations for drug prescription. An effective way to computerize these recommendations is to design critiquing decision support systems, i.e. systems that criticize the physician's prescription when it does not conform to the guidelines. These systems are co...