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"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."
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The argument is well-presented, but not well-reasoned. By making a comparision of the first group of patients, taking antibiotics regularly in the treatment and therefore the recuperation time of them reduced a lot, with the second group of patients, given sugar pills in stead of antibiotics and consequently their recuperation time not significantly reduced ,the argument for advising all patients with muscle strain to use antibiotics as an effective treatment seems logical.
However, the premise of the conclusion that the antibiotics is the only factor to prevent secondary infections implicated in the argument may be a poor one. A myriad of other factors, such as the use of the tincture of iodine, might just as likely be the cause of prevention of secondary infections. Without ruling out these factors, the author can not be justfiably conclude only by applying antibiotics can protecting patients from secondary infections.
The author's suggestion depending on the study of the two groups are not reliable to infer the results generally. First, as lacking the information about the absolute number of the patients for the two groups, it is impossible to assess the validity of the results by a vague statistics. If the number of person participating within the study is just only two or three of each group, who can verify the result from this study. Secondly, the number of samples, in itself, does not ensure the representativeness and randomness. At the same time, the arguer is falling to consider the possible differences of patients among the two groups in this research. Such differences may include the fact that there are more elderly, children, or peolpe having a weak constitution in the first group. While there are more younger and adults who excerise in their daily life before injured. In addition, the author has ignored detecting the distinction of doctors who specialize in deferent respects. Perhaps, Dr.Newland of the first one, specializing in sports medicine, may defeat general physician Dr.Alton, who continues to use the traditional therapy, by applying some special treatment other than antibiotics, like adding the Physical Activity in regular therapy. Therefore, unless the arguer can reasonably exclude these factors, the study would not doubt suggest the anbiotics do play a crucial role in the reduction of recuperation time from such study.
Although the study can provide sufficient evidences to account for the efficacy ofantibiotics in this tentative research, equating the preliminary results of a study with final evidence is at stake, and giving advice depending on this unreliable theory is dangerous to patients as well. Who can ensure that antibiotics are totally unharmful in the future? It is possible that using antibiotics in regular therapy may bring specimens of research harmful by-products, such as killing helpful flora of us and producing antibody of biotics, which will impede the futher treatment. If so, the antibiotics may not only reduce the recovery time but also intimidate the health of us over a long time. Even if the antibiotics is useful and safe for the group in the study for a long term, the author may not enlarge the scope of patients from the group to all patients with muscle strain. Because we can not set some exceptions apart form the universality. Taking pregnant women as an example, the application of antibiotics may cause some belights for children. Based on these assumptions, the arguer could not come to a hasty declaration that we can take antibiotics as part of treatment.
To sum up, the author fails to strengthen his claim that taking antibiotics into treatment is an efficacy suggestion, because the evidence cited in this argument does not lend strong support to what the arguer maintains. Additionally, he would have to provide more imformation regarding the effect of antibiotics and details of the study. Therefore, if the argument has included the given factors mentioned above, this argument could be more thorough and logically.
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