A Good Doctor speaking well

My Audience, Profiled.

Those who go into medicine are typically concerned with the welfare of others. They are intelligent and know how to learn effectively. A med student is studious and time efficient, meaning they don’t want to waste time on things that are not important. For most med schools typical core classes that are required include, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and micro and molecular biology. A med students class load is generally science heavy, yet there isn’t a specific major that gives you a better chance at getting accepted. Med schools like to see students who are different, who can be themselves and don’t feel that they must conform to a set system.

A good doctor is one who not only knows medicine, but one
who knows how to communicate well with
others.

Any med school that you go to will require a rigorous application process, full of interviews, essays, and lots of presentation. With all of this in mind it is a wonder why more premed students are not required in their curriculum to take more persuasive writing or rhetoric classes.

There are also volunteer and practical experience hours that any med school takes into consideration for their application process. Med school is highly competitive so its important for a student to not only have good grades but also to have experience with the medical environment as well as show that you care about and are involved in the community.

Context:

I don’t think that many people of think of rhetoric when they think of medicine. I will use some parts

from  my post from on Rhetoric in my field.  No one goes into medicine wanting to be a bad doctor. In todays market there are so many doctors around that if someone doesn’t like your bedside manner, or doesn’t agree with your diagnosis or prescription, it is easy for them to find another doctor. As a doctor you are in business to help people, but also to help yourself. You can’t help others if you’re out of a job.

Rhetoric:

Not everyone in medicine will share the same opinions and there will be lots of information that will be presented to you by patients and other doctors or drug companies that will be controversial. I hope to help them understand that there are many kinds of doctors, but the best doctor a patient would hope to find is a “Good doctor speaking well”. I will use some of my examples and ideas from by blogpost, persuasion in medicine.

I wish to focus on the importance of patient persuasion. A treatment is only effective if the patient follows it. As a doctor you face many different kinds of people all feeling a variety of emotions. From angry to afraid, from confused to determined. A doctor will need to know his audience and know how to persuade.

I want to show them that from the med school application process, to prescribing treatments, to patient persuasion is all about speaking well, and why it is important for them to do so.

Through the ages men and woman have
toiled endlessly to make advancements
in medicine in order to help
others

History-

 The history of medicine is all about gaining greater knowledge about our bodies and discovering how we can use this knowledge to help people. Gone are the days when a doctor can order someone to do something and they obey without question. I wish to draw their attention to the idea of rhetoric fitting hand in hand with the goal of medicine, adapting to find better ways of helping people. This will be shown by taking excerpts from my historical blog. I will do some further research on some advancement made in medicine to show that the whole goal is to adapt what we are doing to more effective ways of dealing with and helping patients