In her “What Caused This Man’s Chest Pain if Not a Heart Attack?” (2016), Lisa Sanders asserted that a man’s chest pain could cause doctors to double think about what type of treatment they are prescribing to a patient. Sanders supported her position by using a man’s mysterious chest pain story to inform her audience about misleading symptoms. Sanders’ purpose was to instruct her readers about undiscovered illnesses in order to show how familiar symptoms could be mistaken for something common rather than something rare and dangerous. Given the intimidating language used in the article, Sanders was writing to an intellectual audience with an explanatory tone to show that some things are not as they appear to be.
In the beginning of Sanders’
In the beginning of Sanders’