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Argument 188 The effectiveness of pain medication

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 opiods-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 opiods 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.
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In the new report the author concludes that men and women experience pain very differently from one another, and so is the case that doctors should consider these differences when prescribing pain medications. To support this idea, the author cites one research that the same dosage of a painkiller-kappa opiods-were used to 28 men and 20 women who were having their wisdom teeth extracted, and the result is that women felt much less pain than the men, and the easing of pain lasted considerably longer in women. However, I find this argument several flaws.

Firstly, the author fails to convince me that the research is statistically enough to support the new idea. There are several problems. The number of the research subjects is not large enough to substantiate the real effect of the kappa opiods is so different between men and women, and it is entirely possible that whose men suffered more pain from their more serious teethpain and those women were all near the recovery of the teethpain. Also, the constitution of the subjects were not informed because when human have their wisdom teeth the age vary a lot from one to another, and different ages means different symptoms. So, lacking the information to substantiate the constitution of the subjects are parallel between men and women, the author could not convince me to accept his new idea.

Secondly, even if the painkiller kappa opiods usage should be varied between when people are having their wisdom teeth extracted, the report do not provide any information about the effect of painkiller kappa opiods on any other disease. It is entirely possible that this painkiller is specially produced to treat teethpain through the extraction and it would not work when used to other disease and if it is that case, there is no meaning to distinguish men and women when prescribing. Because of this reason, the new idea could not stand either.

Thirdly, though it is possible that what the research has proved is true, the author has wrongly amplified the conclusion of this research on all the other medications and also has overlooked the possibility that not all the diseases should be treated with painkiller. In the medication, many other kinds of medicines can be used to treat varied diseases due the prescription. The effect of them also varies a lot and the way they take to cure the disease is greatly different. Kappa opiods is only a medication which treats pain. Common sense informs that not all the medicine are used differently to men and women, though many of them are this case.

In sum, the author fails to provide information that his view is convincing. To strengthen his argument more information about the statistical features of the research should be provided, and maybe a large constitution of the subjects is more convincing. To better assess this argument, evidence that men and women really feel differently should be given and no other medication effects should be included in due to the of specialty of this research.

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