Self-study
Michaela: I think doctors who complain about patients doing medical research on the Internet are being a little unfair. ██ █████ ████ ███████ ████ █ ███████ █████ ████ ██ ████ ██ ████ ██ ████████ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██████████
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Summary
In response to Michaela’s claim that it's unfair for doctors to complain about patients doing their own medical research, Sam states that these doctors are not being unfair. According to Sam, a doctor’s opinion is worth more than the opinion of an untrained person who has done Internet research.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
The opinions of untrained patients who have done Internet research are worth just as much as a doctor’s opinion.
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Sam’s response indicates that he ███████████ ████████████ ███████ ██ ████ ████
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health information found ██ ███ ████████ ██ ███████████
This answer is unsupported. Sam does not indicate an opinion about whether this information is trustworthy or not.
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This answer is strongly supported. Sam asks Michaela how she can maintain that a doctor’s opinion is not worth more than that of an untrained person. This indicates Sam's belief that Michaela is giving equal weight to these two opinions.
c
the opinion of █ █████████ ███ ██████ ██████ ███ ██ █████ ████ ██████ ████ ███ ████████ ██ ███████ █████████ ██ ████████
This answer is unsupported. Sam and Michaela are discussing Internet research in general. We can't extract specific beliefs about what doctors say on the Internet.
d
a doctor’s explanation ██ █ ███████████ ████████ ██████ ██ █████ ████ █████████ ████ ███ ███████████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ██ ███ ████████
This answer is unsupported. Sam thinks that Michaela is giving equal weight to doctors' and patients' opinions. Sam does not interpret Michaela's remarks to mean that doctors should be taken more seriously than patients.
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patients who do ███ ████████ █████ ██████████ ██ ███ ████████ ████ █████ ██████████ ████████ ████ █████████████
This answer is unsupported. Neither Sam nor Michaela mentions anything about patients' attitudes towards their doctors.