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TOPIC: ARGUMENT51 - The following appeared in a medical newsletter.

"Doctors have long suspected that secondary infections may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. This hypothesis has now been proved by preliminary results of a study of two groups of patients. The first group of patients, all being treated for muscle injuries by Dr. Newland, a doctor who specializes in sports medicine, took antibiotics regularly throughout their treatment. Their recuperation time was, on average, 40 percent quicker than typically expected. Patients in the second group, all being treated by Dr. Alton, a general physician, were given sugar pills, although the patients believed they were taking antibiotics. Their average recuperation time was not significantly reduced. Therefore, all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment."


Based on the doctors’ suspicion that secondary infection may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain, the speaker advises that all the patients who suffered with muscle strain should better take antibiotics as part of their treatment, and an experiment is cited to prove the hypothesis. However, several details in the conclusion are not matching well with the counterparts in the presupposition, and also the study makes some unreasonable assumptions and lacks some necessary information.

The assumption claims that some severe muscle strain patients maybe affect by secondary infection, that is to say: not all the patients with muscle strain will heal slowly with the influence of secondary infection, maybe just some severe injured patient would. Furthermore, not all the patients would hurt severely, nor get secondary infection. For that matter, if the patients haven’t got secondary infection, taking antibiotics would have no use. Granted that secondary infection would keep patient from healing quickly after severe muscle strain, other medicines maybe more efficient than antibiotics in dealing with secondary infection. Accordingly, the advise lacks of cogency although the doctors’ suspicion probably rational.

What’s more, the study of two groups of patients indicates that antibiotics are efficiency in treating muscle strain. However, the conditions of the patients are not provided, perhaps most patients in the first group just minor hurt while those in group two hurt badly. In this case, the average recovery time of the first group should logically shorter than that of the second group and thus have litter matter with whether taken antibiotics or not.

In addition, as the speaker claims, taking antibiotics just as part of the treatment, thus we could confirm that other efficient treatments should be taken. and the experience of the two doctors should be different. Dr. Newland who specializes in sports medicine certainly know well that which medicine is better to such kind of patients, and maybe more sophisticated in curing muscle strain than Dr. Alton who is a general physician. Accordingly, we cannot hastily judge that it was merely the antibiotics works.

To support the conclusion, the study should take various aspects into consideration such as the conditions of patients (minor hurt or severe hurt), with or without other treatment except taking antibiotics, the same quality of doctors, etc. Only after complex clinical experiments the conclusion maybe cogent.

dairymanUID: 2683905

写的很好嘛，最后一句倒装一下
only after complex clinical experiments may the conclusion be cogent