To help readers understand why incremental care is oen less valued than rescue medicine, Gawande uses the cause-and-effect writing strategy. He traces the cause of the prioritization of rescue...

To help readers understand why incremental care is oen less valued than rescue medicine, Gawande uses the cause-and-effect writing strategy. He traces the cause of the prioritization of rescue medicine over incremental medicine to the kind of rescue medicine practiced following the Second World War (par. 26), before showing readers the effects of this privileging of rescue medicine. Locate moments in the essay where Gawande describes the effects or consequences of valuing rescue medicine over incremental care. What does Gawande’s use of the cause-and-effect writing strategy help you understand about incremental care?