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rhetoric of medicine  

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  • Medicine and health care play a significant role in contemporary human life. From birth to death, a complex tangle of hospitals and clinics, doctors and nurses, medical industry workers and insurance agencies, alternative healers and health gurus, pharmacies and fitness centers work to improve the health and wellness of the citizenry. [Source: Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication; Rhetoric of Medicine]

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