Traditional Healing
“Consumer Health, What’s considered an alternative therapy is a moving target. Get the facts about what CAM means and its changing role in health care” By Mayo Clinic Staff, talks about unconventional ways of healing. Today with many diverse medications on the market, people are looking for alternative treatments. Complementary and alternative medicine is what it is called or CAM for short. CAM treatments are classified as: whole medical systems, mind-body medicine, biologically based practices, manipulative and body practices, and energy medicine (Mayo Clinic Staff). These practices have their own set of doctors, which are proficient at CAM treatments (Mayo Clinic Staff). I will argue that Mayo Clinic Staff is very effective at persuading readers to think that complementary and alternative medicine will become more popular as conventional practices are becoming more expensive. …show more content…
They compare the cost of conventional therapies to the cost of complementary and alternative medicine. “Trials for conventional therapies are often funded by big companies that develop and sell drugs. Fewer resources are available to support trails of CAM therapies” (Mayo Clinic Staff). Mayo Clinic Staff is relating the expense of CAM versus conventional practice. The pharmaceutical companies are a big business. What Mayo Clinic Staff is trying to persuade here is complementary and alternative medicine might be a great alternative for those still suffering with prescribed medication. “One reason for the lack of research in alternate treatments is that large, carefully controlled medical studies are costly” (Mayo Clinic Staff). Mayo Clinic Staff writes how expensive studies are on conventional pharmaceutical drugs, and the reader wants to believe that. This quote explains why you may not have heard of CAM before; it simply has trouble competing with the big
“Consumer Health, What’s considered an alternative therapy is a moving target. Get the facts about what CAM means and its changing role in health care” By Mayo Clinic Staff, talks about unconventional ways of healing. Today with many diverse medications on the market, people are looking for alternative treatments. Complementary and alternative medicine is what it is called or CAM for short. CAM treatments are classified as: whole medical systems, mind-body medicine, biologically based practices, manipulative and body practices, and energy medicine (Mayo Clinic Staff). These practices have their own set of doctors, which are proficient at CAM treatments (Mayo Clinic Staff). I will argue that Mayo Clinic Staff is very effective at persuading readers to think that complementary and alternative medicine will become more popular as conventional practices are becoming more expensive. …show more content…
They compare the cost of conventional therapies to the cost of complementary and alternative medicine. “Trials for conventional therapies are often funded by big companies that develop and sell drugs. Fewer resources are available to support trails of CAM therapies” (Mayo Clinic Staff). Mayo Clinic Staff is relating the expense of CAM versus conventional practice. The pharmaceutical companies are a big business. What Mayo Clinic Staff is trying to persuade here is complementary and alternative medicine might be a great alternative for those still suffering with prescribed medication. “One reason for the lack of research in alternate treatments is that large, carefully controlled medical studies are costly” (Mayo Clinic Staff). Mayo Clinic Staff writes how expensive studies are on conventional pharmaceutical drugs, and the reader wants to believe that. This quote explains why you may not have heard of CAM before; it simply has trouble competing with the big