You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Present a written argument or case to an educated non-specialist audience on the following topic.
A number of different medical traditions are now widely known and used: Western medicine (using drugs and surgery), herbal medicine, acupuncture (using needles at certain points of the body), homoeopathy (using minute doses of poisons), and so on. How important is the patient's mental attitude towards his/her treatment in determining the effectiveness of the treatment?
You should write at least 250 words.
You should you your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence.
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你可以按照下面的提纲写作：
Different medical traditions (a list of examples is given)
Patient's mental attitude: the way the patient feels about the treatment
Effectiveness of the treatment: how much better does it make the patient?
在写作之前，请
