Physician: Conclusion Clinical psychologists who are not also doctors with medical degrees should not be allowed to prescribe psychiatric medications. ████████ ██ ████████ ██████████ ████████ ██ ████ █ ███ ███████ █████ ██ █████████ ██ █████████████ ███████████ ███ █████████████ ██ █████████ ███████ ████ ███████ ███████ ████ ███████ █████ ██ ████████ ██ █████ ██████ ██████ ████ ███ ███████ ██ █████████ ███████████ ████████████
The author concludes that clinical psychologists who aren’t doctors with medical degrees shouldn’t be allowed to prescribe psychiatric medications.
Why does the author believe this?
Clinical psychology only includes at most a few hundred hours of education in neuroscience/physiology/pharmacology.
Doctors with medical degrees, however, must receive years of training in these fields before being allowed to prescribe psychiatric medications.
The conclusion asserts that a certain kind of clinical psychologist “should not” be allowed to prescribe psychiatric medications. But the premises don’t tell us when someone “should not” be allowed to prescribe something. We want a principle to connect the premises to the conclusion. For example:
If you don’t have at least a few years of training in neuroscience, physiology, and pharmacology, then you should not be allowed to prescribe psychiatric medications.
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