I have chosen an article in the Consumer Health Report Journal to use as my reading in defining "ethos", "pathos", and "logos".
As read in this journal dated Sept 16, 2013, the misuse of antibiotics harms millions of people each year and kills thousands, according to a report put out on Sept 16, 2013 from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. It further states that half of the antibiotics prescribed by doctors each year are given unnecessarily or used improperly. Much of the harm comes when doctors and patients overuse antibiotic drugs, a practice that breeds superbugs, such as MRSA that are resistant to antibiotics. Misuse of antibiotics also harm in another way too by destroying the good bacterria that normally lives in your gut. (ethos)
Such antibiotic infections sicken at least two million people annually and kill 23,000, according to the CDC. (pathos)
According to the CDC almost 250,000 hospital patients each year are infected with the bacteria Clostridium difficile or C. diff and 14,000 of them die. (logos)
Choose Wisely and do not take or ask for antibiotics for common conditions such as mild sinusitis, the common cold and/or eye and ear infections.
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