argu 203

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16:50-17:41 00:51:00 words:613

In this argument, the speaker concludes that the treatment in smaller, non-profit hospitals is more economical and of higher quality than treatment of larger, profit hospitals. The speaker also points out that the average length of a patient's stay in smaller, non-profit hospital in the town of Saluda is shorter than it in the profit hospital in the Megaville and either cure rate or employees per patients in the non-profit hospital is in a better situation than it in profit hospital. Further more, the speaker points out the smaller hospital in Saluda has fewer complaints about service, while the larger hospital in Megaville has more. This argument suffers from several flaws as follow.

17:02

The speaker assumes that the longer stay of a patient's stay in larger hospital based on the evidence that the patients treated by tow kinds of hospitals have diseases of the same severity level. However, the speaker fails to provide such evidence to support the assumption. It is possible that the patients treated by the profit hospital in Megaville are more sever than patients treated by hospital in Saluda, thus resulting in longer stay in hospital in Megaville. Without ruling out this possibility, the speaker cannot convince me that the larger hospital has lower quality of treatment than it in the smaller, non-profit hospital in Saluda.

17:14

Even the patients of the same severity level in larger hospital stay longer than the patients in the non-profit hospital in Saluda. The speaker provides no evidence to support the relationship between the time a patient stays in a hospital and the level of treatment in a hospital. Perhaps there are not enough beds available for patients to stay in the smaller hospital so the patients had to be taken care of at home. Or perhaps the doctors in larger hospital has a highly responsibility that they often want patients stay in hospital until they have been healthy again. Without providing enough evidence to show the relationship between patients' stay and treatments in hospital, I do not agree with the speaker's conclusion that the quality of treatment in larger hospital is lower than the smaller hospital.

17:24

The speaker also claims that the more complaints a hospital have the less quality of service a hospital get. However, the speaker fail to consider other factors that may cause the more complaints. Common sense tells me that people are inclined to complaint about service they paid and be thankful for service they don't paid. It is possible that patients complain fewer about the non-profit hospital because of less, which has no relationship to whether its service is better or not. Considering this factor, I don't agree with the speaker's sweeping generation of the quality in two hospitals.

17:31

Even if the it is truly because of the quality of service that larger hospital in Megaville has more complaints than it in the samller hospital in Saluda, it is unfair to conclude all the larger, hospitals have lower quality of service than the smaller, non-profit hospitals. It is entirely possible that the larger, profit hospital in Megaville is not representative of average larger, profit hospital nationwide. To the extent that the larger hospital in Megaville is below the average the speaker's assumption that all the larger profit hospitals have lower service are unwarrented.

Simply put, the conclusion reached in the argument lacked clear evidence of severity of patients in two kinds of hospital and relationship between patients' stay and quality of service of hospitals. To assess this argument, I would need more proof that whether the number of complaints indicates the service in hospitals and whether the samples of larger, profit hospitals and smaller, non-profit hospitals are representative.