| 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."
WORDS: TIME: 00:30:00 DATE: 2010/12/9 20:24:13
In the medical newsletter, the author claims that once a patient is diagnosed with muscle strain, he/she should be advised to take antibiotics as kind of treatment,(标点应用逗号以上的) based on a contrast study of two groups, and the author believes that the different outcome strongly suggest the proclaim. Although the author build(单三) his assumption on a real study, he, however, also makes several logic fallacies.(长短结合的句式,学习了)
First of all, the author doesn't take into consideration if there are other situation rather than the intaking of antibotics that lead to the difference in the result. In an other word, if the author does not elimilate(拼写) other differences(指代不太清楚), we cannot ensure that the outcome is [url=]solely[/url]
because of antibiotics, not other possible conditions. For example, in the letter the author mentioned that the first group have a doctor, who specializes in sports medicine, for advise, which will of course have a good(positive好一些吧) influence during the treatment. In addition, the author still not tell us whether those patiences are physically similar or have close ability on defending injuries, otherwise, it could be the patiences' natural conditions, not the antibioitcs, that make the final difference. [url=]Without pointing these likelihoods and excluding other dissimilarities out[/url]
, the author cannot conclude that the antibiotics will lead a better result in muscle recuperation.
Secondly, even we admit antibiotics have a positive affect on recuperation, the author cannot further suggest
the differences in the result of recuperation is because the medicine keeps those patiences from secondary infections, since no additional information is provided to ensure that the medicine have no affect but reducing secondary infection.(好长的句子,有点问题,我没太看懂,需要请教你) For example, if the first group does not even have the possibility to have a secondary infection or the second group have few patiences suffering a secondary infection, then the saying that antibiotics can prevent patiences from infection again during the treatment. In that case, even the author can persuade us the influence of antibiotics during the recuperation, he still cannot make his conclusion sound without pointing other the link between antibiotics and secondary infection.(我觉得这一块,属于前提,应该最先攻击)
Thirdly, even assuming antibiotics indeed prevent patiences from secondary infections, the author unfairly make a haste [url=]extension[/url]
that all the patiencs who diagnosed to have muscle strain should take antibiotics for part of treatment. The author does not take into account the other ways, maybe more better and suitable, to deal with the situation. As we know, antibiotics, as a kind of medicine, more or less have a negative influence to patiences' body, which may be the last choice of doctors if all the other methods do not work. So if the patience does not have a serious strain and can totally pick up by himself in several days, would he take an antibiotics? What's more, if the patience have an allergy (这个小点不错,我忘了攻击了)on those antibiotics and taking any of them will have lead to a more serious situation, then would the doctor advise the patience takeing antibiotics as part of treatment? Therefore, although the author puts his feet down trying to persuade us that all the patiences with muscle strain should take antibiotics, he unfortunately ignore other solutions.(问句是不是应该尽量不是用呢,我不太清楚,欢迎讨论)
In sum, the author claims that antibiotics should seen as an essential part of treatment for patience with muscle strain, but he commits several mistakes. To further strengthen his claim, he should provide more information about the contrast groups and furthrer consider other solutions.(感觉是不是时间紧张了呢?有点单薄最后) |