It started in 2013 when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took action that included long-overdue rules to reduce foodborne illness. These rules were basically directed to farmers. Ryan Jaslow, a journalist for CBSN, talked about this issue in his article “Medical controversies sparking debate in 2014.” Ryan talked about the FDA actions by saying that, “The rules required farmers to take precautions against contamination, such as ensuring that workers' hands are washed, irrigation water is clean, and animals stay out of fields” (Jaslow). Ryan also talks more about what the FDA is trying to do to prevent foodborne illnesses by saying, “the FDA announced plans to reduce antibiotics in meat in an effort to make Americans safer by curbing antibiotic resistance in the United States. The agency asked pharmaceutical companies to voluntarily change the labeling on these drugs so they would no longer be used for livestock production purposes” (Jaslow). Although this step is encouraging, there is a small chance that the pharmaceutical companies would “voluntarily” stop using antibiotics on the animals. They are making money out of it, and if no regulations are imposed against them, they will not stop. The FDA should put a stop to these companies because people's’ lives are more important than money. There are many more examples on controversies related to the medical field. This article has few more issues and …show more content…
The people have to see the results that these researches came up with. Therefore, the medical field requires a lot of writing. An article in the US National Library of Medicine by Dr. Suhasini Sharma talks about the definition of medical writing by saying, “medical writing involves writing scientific documents of different types which include regulatory and research-related documents, disease or drug-related educational and promotional literature, publication articles like journal manuscripts and abstracts, content for healthcare websites, health-related magazines or news articles” (Sharma). Readers can see that there are a big variety of journals and magazines that includes