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发表于 2010-1-12 16:19:08
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本帖最后由 karen_06 于 2010-1-12 16:27 编辑
ARGUMENT188 - A new report suggests that men and women experience pain very differently from one another, and that doctors should consider these differences when prescribing pain medications. When researchers administered the same dosage of kappa opioids-a painkiller-to 28 men and 20 women who were having their wisdom teeth extracted, the women reported feeling much less pain than the men, and the easing of pain lasted considerably longer in women. This research suggests that kappa opioids should be prescribed for women whenever pain medication is required, whereas men should be given other kinds of pain medication. In addition, researchers should reevaluate the effects of all medications on men versus women.
The Difference between Women and Men for Pain Endurance
The proponent in this article suggests that kappa opinodis should be used as women's painkiller but not for men. Further research on the difference of medicine effects on men and women is also advised by the author. These suggestions are based on a reference of newspaper and an experiment of kappa opiodis, all of which seems unconvinced for the author's opinion, because all the evidence has flaws as follows.
Firstly, we are not convinced about the representation of the painkiller experiment of kappa opioids. Though the results show that women react differently with men, we do not know where the experiment is taken place, how many people are tested and what the healthy status about them is before the experiment. If the sample is chosen just in school or small district, then we can not make conclusions as to the whole nation. Likewise, small group of people is not sufficient. As to the health conditions, suppose the 28 men are less healthy than women, there is no doubt that women can endure more than men. And if the men selected are older than women, the result presented is also reasonable because younger people usually have greater anti-pain ability.
Secondly, the suggestions that put different painkillers on men and women are based on the newspaper report that men vary with women about the experience on pain. However, the author fails to show us the original information about the reference, such as what kind of pain the reference indicates, what about the difference extent between the men and women, and what the sample size is in the reference. Besides, this reference may come from another country’s research, and their people have different food menu, life environment and exercise habits that may result in difference with us. With the same reasons as showed in kappa opioids experiment, we could not simply use this reference's result for evidence.
Finally, the author makes a fallacy conclusion based only on one sample to the whole. In fact, kappa opioids could not represent all kinds of medicines as each medicine has its own elements, cure function and service scope. Even if the cure effects on women are different with on men, we can not accordingly conclude that other painkillers will cure differently on men and women.
In a word, the author makes a hasty and unconvincing conclusion just according to the dosage research. Unless detailed information about the experiment is explained, and further complex experiments on the whole nation are did, we have no enough evidence to make conclusion on effects of kappa opioids, not mention to other kinds of painkillers. |
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