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Lz如果有空的话帮忙改下argument..谢谢
TOPIC: ARGUMENT203 - The following appeared in a newspaper feature story.
"At the small, nonprofit hospital in the town of Saluda, the average length of a patient's stay is two days; at the large, for-profit hospital in the nearby city of Megaville, the average patient stay is six days. Also, the cure rate among patients in the Saluda hospital is about twice that of the Megaville hospital. The Saluda hospital has more employees per patient than the hospital in Megaville, and there are few complaints about service at the local hospital. Such data indicate that treatment in smaller, nonprofit hospitals is more economical and of better quality than treatment in larger, for-profit hospitals."
WORDS: 544
TIME: 00:48:06
DATE: 2010/8/3 11:30:31
Grounded on the comparison between nonprofit hospital in Saluda and for-profit hospital in the nearby Megaville, supposing that the former one is more economical and of higher quality, the author accordingly concluded that smaller and nonprofit hospitals have such advantages just like the one in Saluda. However, this ratiocination, in itself, weakens the validity of this conclusion.
To begin with, Based on the result that small and nonprofit hospital in Saluda has a shorter average length of a patient's stay, a higher cure rate among patients, more employees and fewer complaints, the author comes into his conclusion that it is more economical and of better quality. However, the comparison is unpersuasive. Firstly, the patients stay shorter time in the hospital and does not guarantee better quality. It is entirely possible that this hospital, owing to its small scale, could not afford enough places for patients to stay a long period. Thus the patients have to go back home or go to other hospital for treatment. Secondly, the higher cure rate could be ascribed to the explanation that people go to this hospital only when their state of illness is not serious. Common sense tells us that if we fall ill seriously, we would not like to choose a town hospital. In this case, the high cure rate of this hospital is quite easy to reach. Thirdly, the author also assumes that more employees and fewer complaints is the evidence of better quality. However, is it necessary the case? As we all know, quality dues to the skill of doctors and the equipment of hospital to a high extent. As a small hospital it is, whether the doctors are equal skillful to those in the large hospital is uncertain. Perhaps the for-profit hospital has more advanced equipment. Besides, because of its smaller scale, the fewer number of complaints patients could be in the consequence of the fewer number of patients. These scenarios, if true, would lead to the invalidity of the conclusion that the small and nonprofit hospital has better quality. Moreover, the author even neglects to provide any statistics about the expenses of patients visiting these two hospitals. Thus the inference that the small and nonprofit hospital is more economical is completely ungrounded.
Additionally, even if the author proves that this hospital in Saluda is more economical and of higher quality, it seems too haste to generalize that all smaller and nonprofit hospitals have the same advantage as the one in Saluda. These two hospitals, possibly being too special to ensure representativeness of all hospitals, make the result inadequate to reach any conclusion generally. On one hand, people in Saluda may be quite rich and willing to donate the local hospital while other small and nonprofit hospitals cannot receive as much donation. In this case, the Saluda hospital, being too special, could not represent all small and nonprofit hospitals. On the other hand, the representativeness of Megaville hospital lacks evidence to be proved.
In the final analysis, this argument is short of persuasiveness, failing to support the conclusion between small, nonprofit hospitals and large, for-profit hospitals. Were there more evidence supporting the assumption that Saluda hospital is better than Megaville hospital and these two hospitals are representative enough, the conlusion would be more suasive. |
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