Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): Question: Faced with a patient with diffuse otitis externa, what is the initial treatment? 
 Options:  <0> Surgery. <1> Antibiotics plus analgesics, both intravenously. <2> Antibiotics and analgesics, both orally. <3> Cleaning of the external auditory canal, topical antibiotic therapy plus oral analgesics. <4> Topical antibiotics
Output (English): medicine