Rhetorical Analysis Of 'Healthcare Should Be A Team Sport'

Eric Dishman’s Ted talk, “Healthcare Should be a Team Sport”, shares how today’s health care needs to conform and revolutionized to fit in today’s technological, and widespread society. A patient told him to take control of his health, and not let the doctors take control of him. Dishman goes into detail how the healthcare system is a “flawed expensive system that is set up in the wrong way” (2:07). The American health system is dependent on clinics and the occupants residing within, how specialists are necessary in the healthcare system to look at specific parts of us, and having passive patients that would follow the orders of a doctor, that might satisfy the appropriate issue at hand, and satisfying the individual patients’ needs. The

Rhetoric is used in ways to persuade a reader towards the speaker’s intentions. Different forms of rhetoric influences readers in different ways. The context in which a paper is read, or a speech spoken, is the rhetorical situation. Rhetorical situation can be split into four parts; exigence, audience, purpose, and rhetor. Exigence is “an event or occurrence that causes rhetorical discourse.” It also prompts the cycle of rhetorical discourse when concerning problems that would need a response later to clarify (“Key” 1). The audience is whoever receives the information from a given source. The intended audience is whom the author wants to relate with the best in terms of a group of people. Purpose is the intention of what the information is used for. To pair everything together, rhetor is “Anyone who composes any kind of discourse (print, visual, aural, digital, multimedia) for an intended audience for an intended purpose (“Key” 1). In Eric Dishman’s TED talk, he prominently uses, but not limited to; medium, visual rhetoric, and genre in its intentional rhetoric used in his

Visual rhetoric is the way that images or other visual objects are used as functions to help persuade or explain the authors purpose. Images where displayed to show Dishman’s focus on happiness while in snow, giving the audience something to relate and understand. The use of this technique is quite effect in speeches giving additional background and depth to the speech to make it more solid. A doctor from another hospital was streamed from another location to help focus on Dishman’s point on how this form of healthcare is indeed possible. Another case seen in this speech was Dishman’s case study by bringing in his kidney donor, making the viewers emotionally connect, and show a great impact on the personal story, connecting the audience to the story, thus connecting them to the topic. These modes of persuasion used all support the authors purpose of relating personally to the listener, and also finding ways to convince them on his