Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Medicine Infections Infections A hypothesis which states how a minor surgery does not decrease ear infections in children is not adequately proven by some scientists in the article " Ear-infecton surgery has limited gain ". The claim that the use of antibiotics, helps morewhen it comes to decreasing ear infections is not well supported. Scientists investigated 280 children who recieved medication and underwent surgery for ear infections. However, this resulted in infection rates being subscribed or successful in the first year. The control group stated that 181 children were recieving medication only. The experimental group, stated how 280 children underwent major ear surgery, or removed their tonsils and adenoids. The variable of the experiment was changed from surgery of removing tonsils and adenoids to using only antibiotics. The conclusion is that a minor surgery cannot be proven to work better than the medication itself. In the article " Ear- infection surgery has limits ", it was explained how the scientists determined that in " the first year those with removed adenoids and tonsils had about two-thirds as many ear infections as those getting the medication alone". In other words, this suggests that the surgery had an outcome of more infections, than the medication did. The article further suggested that in the second and third year this outcome has disappeared. But, nowhere in the article is mentioned that after these two groups are compared, the rates are being recorded in numbers. Furthermore, the rates and their comparison cannot be determined, In addition, Jack L. Paradise, a pediatrician at the children's Hospital in Pittsburgh depicted how these long term therapies have resulted in a small number of ear infections among children. Again there is not a particular number being specified as a proof of the investigation. All of these investigations, cannot lead up to a theory that the treatment of an ear-infection should be based on a minor surgery. Thus, the use of antibiotics is less successful. There should be more numbers involved in the comparison between the control group and the experimental group. The percentage rates of ear-infections resulting from minor surgeries should be first recorded in numbers. Then the number of ear infections that result from the use of antibiotics should be recorded, as well. Only this way, will both, the experimental group and control group be ready The knowledge gained in this laboratory enabled me a lot more than I suspected. I never knew that a major surgery would not work better than the medication itself. For me it was thought to be all equal. This article evaluated a claim being made about products being advertised by cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies. Bibliography: Word Count: 446
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