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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 , herbal medicine, acupuncture , homoeopathy , and so on. How important is the patients 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. 提示 你可以按照下面的提纲写作： Different medical traditions Patients 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，请问自己以下的问题: Do I think the patients attitude is important? What examples can I give where the patients attitude was important, or irrelevant? 在文章中你必须: Describe some of the different ways people feel about medical treatment . Say if in your opinion the feelings affect the treatment or not. Give examples to support your argument about why the treatments were effective or ineffective. | 
