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Argument Assessment: “Literature about medicine may be all that can save us” This is a article by Azusa Pacific University written by Andrew Solomon in the Spring 2016 Issues of The Guard. Solomon’s argument is that physicians today don’t give the chance to know about the patient before they treat them, he assumes that if physicians knew more about the patient, they would know better on how to properly treat the patient. Solomon offers several reasons to support his claim, First by quoting a writer named William Osler which states, ‘It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has’. In places such as Los Angeles and New York, patients rather know what is wrong with them and get …show more content…
It may be good to have support of one’s thesis but it would make the article stronger if his opinion was heard more and stated a solution to solve a more opinionated judgment. This article may be written out of a bad experience with physician, which he mentioned in the beginning of the article, “I’ve sometimes foresworn medical help because the complexity of voicing what is wrong has felt heavier than the sickness itself. This is especially true for psychiatric illnesses such as the depression I have experienced, but it is true of physical problems, too. It has been entirely manifest to me when I’ve tried to explain the problem with my left ear, in which I am partially deaf”. Solomon attempts to explain that his voice being heard may be worse then the actual sickness and argues that physicians don't take enough time to get to know the patient. The only purpose to see a doctor is to find a way to get better, “language is integral to medicine”, states in the second paragraph, physicians are trained to he heard as well as be listened, but a doctors main focus turns to the patient. even as a veterinarian. I do not agree with Solomon, I believe that going to see the doctor should strictly be physician to patient relationship, a patient doesn't go to the doctors office to chat with the physician, they go to get help for an

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