argument188 by gaofei323

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TOPIC: ARGUMENT188 - 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 opioids-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 opioids 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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TIME: 00:29:32

DATE: 2009-8-4 16:17:10

B1:患者疼痛的表现不一定跟药有关系
B2：牙疼的疼不代表所有的疼
B3：没有意义和必要全部药品都来重新测量。

In this argument, author hastily concludes that kappa opioids(KO) has no effect on male patients to lower pain because the measure and content of survey author based on is far from valid to arrive this conclusion. Author also suggests reevaluating all medications to find out whether their functions are different when used in men or women respectively, but it is unreasonable as well.

To begin with, do only the response of 28 men and 20 women are sufficient to verify the different effect of KO? I do not think so. Some additive questions should be considered. Firstly, are these patients equally sensitive for pain? If not, the 28 men probably are more afraid of the pain of extracting wisdom teeth, so their responses cannot serve as the proof to determinate KO's unequal function. Secondly, does these patients are all equally serious in their wisdom teeth? If these men have the wisdom teeth existed with longer time than women do, they have to suffer more pain in the surgeon, so it is cannot prove KO is useless for males. In order to find out the exact result, similarly sick patents ought to be divided into two groups with different pain medication, so we can get more clear result.

Additionally, the content of this survey is too narrow, it only investigates KO's effect on wisdom teeth surgeon, but there are much more types of illness made people use pain medicine. If people get stomachache, this pain would express by the nerves in body, KO may be more favorable in this areas for males. Also, when people get hurt and bruise on skin or facture, KO may also play a more useful role than it does in wisdom teeth pain. In a short, it is unreasonable to judge a pain-relieving medicine by only practiced one type pain.

Moreover, author's final proposal is not acceptable as well. Firstly, the performance of KO has no affiliations with other kinds of pain medicines. Even if KO has a different influence on males and females, it is more possible due to its own causes such as ignorance of the distinction of body structure in male and female. Secondly, how much budget have to be set to precede this plan. There are countless pain medicines on the markets, and calling enough patients on take these huge amount of medicine are all need great financial support. So, it is both unnecessary and impractical to check all kinds of medicines once more.

To sum up, the different effect on female and male patients cannot validly contributed to the function of KO as alternative like the difference of body structure and sensation of pains would also lead the same result. And the final suggestion of author to reevaluate all pain mecidicines is out of necessity. What vitally need to do is make a more detailed experiment in wider range rather than only in wisdom teeth pain, so we could gain more accurate function of KO without meaningless spent on all kinds.