IELTS writing about how patient's mental attitude can affect the effectiveness of treatment A number of different medical traditions are now widely known and used: Western medicine (using drugs and surgery), herbal medicine, acupuncture (using needles at certain points of the body), homoeopathy (using minute doses of poisons), and so on. How important is the patient’s mental attitude towards his/her treatment in determining the effectiveness of the treatment? These days, complimentary therapies such as herbal medicine, acupuncture and homoeopathy have become increasingly popular in our society in addition to conventional medical treatment. Some claimed that these treatments are more useful than the conventional services, other pointed out that the therapy produced no effect at all. In this article, we will discuss how patient’s mental attitude can influence their determination of the effectiveness of the treatment. I believe that the subjective view of the customers can be highly associated with placebo effect and the actual benefit can be very small. Most of the complimentary therapies can improve patients’ health condition if they trust the treatment will be beneficial to their illness. For instance, if the customers know that the acupuncture has contributed to lots of previous successful cases in relieving pain, they already build up confidence and trust towards the treatment. They became less stressful and anxious. Even the treatment do not heal their illness, they generally feel good due to their psychological effects and the work of their immune system over time. On the other hand, people who opposed to Chinese medical tradition try traditional Chinese herbal medicine with scepticism may eventually recover from their diseases or at least see a noticeable body response towards the treatment on the diagnostic test such as MRI or CT scan if they follow the whole program due to the actual promising effectiveness of the treatment. In conclusion, I believe patient’s mental attitude towards the medical services can solely provide limited support or evidence in determining the effectiveness of the treatment.