Kent Sepkowitz's 'If Only All We Wanted Was Expert Advice'

Magician: People’s expectations of an expert
For many reasons people are almost never satisfied with what they have or what they intend to have. It seems to be a natural characteristic that our society has adopted. You might wonder and question yourself if that it actually true? If you think about it you would clearly be able to realize that we as humans have all practiced this acts and made it manipulate our life. As you think about what I just said you are most likely to realize that this actions can be expanded too. People’s self-implications make them believe that they are always right which can lead to their tendency to defeat or not believing expert’s advices. With all of that being said, we can now easily relate to Kent Sepkowitz, the …show more content…
While reading “If Only All We Wanted Was Expert Advice”, the reader is likely to experience intense intimacy with the author just through his vivid description of the problems that the he is evoking. Perhaps these problems are familiar to the reader. He notes: “I have a dishwasher problem that’s lasted several years. Here are the symptoms: every fourth or fifth wash, the dishes come out much dirtier than When I put them in” (Sepkowitz 1). You might stop here for a moment and question yourself. Why is this doctor talking about his problem with a dishwasher? To answer this, I would tell you, yes it might seem a little meaningless to the main objective of the article, yet it emphasizes two great goals. The First goal is to makes a great connection with the readers since they can all relate to a similar problem that they might have faced. And the other goal is to connect with the reader on a personal level. I am almost a ninety-nine percent sure that you would rather read something that relates to your interests rather than an opening paragraph of useless and boring information about statistics. He uses this as an example to show us how important is to listen to other experts and be realistic in our assumptions. In this image that he is evoking, Sepkwitz draws his readers slowly into the …show more content…
Sepkwitz authority appeals in this quote: “After all, patients come to see me in a major research hospital, the ultimate house of science, a temple to the rational mind built on a foundation of countless sharp-edged logical observation made by experts from, Hippocrates tight up to the doctors and researchers published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine” (Sepkwitz 3). Talk about his workplace and using this vivid description of the major research hospital that his patients comes from can refer to him as being a well know doctor and an experienced one as well. As my family and I are familiar with medical related magazines and big medical publishers’ names (having a brother who is a doctor). It is a big honor for some to have their articles published in New England Journal of Medicine. You could also be considered well knowledgeable in medical researches by reading articles in New England Journal of Medicine, since it keeps you up to date with new experiments and projects in the health