Sawyer Ohman

CMM110-A

9/7/23

Journal #5

PG 25 PARA 2 

This passage I found to be quite confusing or hard for me to understand. The study of rhetoric is a well known practice and can be related to many different parts of communication. Public speaking is very important to the study of rhetoric, and although good written work and good speaking share similar skills they are different practices. Rhetoric allows students to identify hidden messages of words and phrases used in both written and spoken literature. 

PG39 PARA 5

This passage is very interesting to me, I have found that the interactions between doctors and patients is very important, more so now than ever. The ability of the scientific community to clearly convey information to the public has vast implications for social and political communities in our society. Most recently the covid-19 pandemic that limited human interaction both commercially and socially had major implications on the 2020 election year. If doctors were better able to communicate with their patients there would have been less widespread panic regarding the pandemic.

Q: PG39 PARA 5

C: Doctor patient relationships have always been incredibly complicated as many of us are aware of. The doctor is generally not a person that we feel comfortable communicating with on a daily basis. When we communicate with our doctors we are often in times of pain or despair. The doctor’s job is not to make you feel better about your situation, you are simply another one of his or her patients. They’re job is to make you well again if you are unwell. However many doctors are very personable people who want to help their patients live their best lives under whatever the circumstances might be. Modern medicine is looked at under a microscope, however, and many people have come to even distrust their doctors. There have been countless cases of botched operations, overprescription, and poor judgment in the medical field so many people feel justified in their distrust of their doctors. This is why communication between patients and doctors is so incredibly important in the modern world. 

Q: How can we better ensure that information from the medical field has been well tested and is safe for human practice?