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ARGUMENT129
129.The following appeared in the Sherwood Times newspaper.
"A recent study reported that pet owners have longer, healthier lives on average than do people who own no pets. Specifically, dog owners tend to have a lower incidence of heart disease. In light of these findings, Sherwood Hospital should form a partnership with Sherwood Animal Shelter to institute an 'adopt-a-dog' program. The program would encourage dog ownership for patients recovering from heart disease, which will help reduce medical costs by reducing the number of these patients needing ongoing treatment. In addition, the publicity about the program will encourage more people to adopt pets from the shelter, which will reduce the risk of heart disease in the general population."
The author, based on a recent study, recommends a "adopt-a-dog" programme in Sherwood Hospital cooperating with Sherwood Animal Shelter to reduce heart disease patients, by which, he also assumes, they can reduce the costs on these patients' ongoing treatment and reduce the general number of people catching heart disease.
First of all, the recommendation is ungrounded for an unreliable study with vague information and lack of necessary data. The argument fails to indicate how the study was conducted and who did it. Is it conducted by the means of scientific research and systematic analysis by certain authoritative or trustworthy groups? Since doubts should be cast on the reliability of the study, it can lend little support to the author’s suggestion.
Second, the author confuses with several important concepts as "the incidence of heart disease", and "recovery". Even if the study is reliable, that is, owning a dog tend to reduce the incidence of heart disease, this will not necessary lead to a successful cure, in turn a declining number of those patients under treatment in the Sherwood Hospital, and further a decline in medical costs.
In addition, the argument bases his suggestion on a groundless assumption that by this programme many people would be encouraged to adopt pets, or the pets from Sherwood Animal Shelter. After all, common sense and experiences tell me that there are those who are scared of dogs or don't like to stay with dogs in that they can make their house a mess. Perhaps many of the heart disease patients in this area are inclined to be far away from dogs. Even they would like to raise dogs, Sherwood Animal Shelter is not necessary the best choice to take a dog from. Perhaps they charge a higher payment for a dog, or the dog training there is not satisfactory. Unless the author succeed to rule out other better choices, the author’s recommended programme is not a sound one.
Moreover, the author ignores some potential risks in adoption dogs. As we know, pets may take and spread bacteria, which may cause diseases in human beings, especially for those patients who are more easier to get infectious. If, by adopting dogs, people catch other kinds of diseases, the costs of medical treatment will grow other than decline.
Overall, the argument is unsubstantiated for the incredibility of the basic study and confusion of certain concepts as well as some illogical reasoning. To assess this argument better, the author should offer additional information about the background of the study and lead anther survey as whether those heart disease patients would like to adopt dogs. What's more, the author should take some examination to make sure that dogs in this area do not take any bacteria of diseases.
请问一下: "heart attack" 到底是心脏病突发还是没有这病的人突然得病啊?
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