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Day 29 听力材料 What really matters at the end of life

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听力综合能力提高—— Day 29
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Well, we all need a reason to wake up. For me, it just took 11,000 volts.

I know you're too polite to ask, so I will tell you.

One night, sophomore year of college, just back from Thanksgiving holiday, a few of my friends and I were horsing around, and we decided to climb atop a parked commuter train. It was just sitting there, with the wires that run overhead. Somehow, that seemed like a great idea at the time. We'd certainly done stupider things. I scurried up the ladder on the back, and when I stood up, the electrical current entered my arm, blew down and out my feet, and that was that. Would you believe that watch still works? Takes a licking!

My father wears it now in solidarity.

That night began my formal relationship with death — my death — and it also began my long run as a patient. It's a good word. It means one who suffers. So I guess we're all patients.

Now, the American health care system has more than its fair share of dysfunction — to match its brilliance, to be sure. I'm a physician now, a hospice and palliative medicine doc, so I've seen care from both sides. And believe me: almost everyone who goes into healthcare really means well — I mean, truly. But we who work in it are also unwitting agents for a system that too often does not serve.
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brilliance ['briljəns]

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n. (色彩)鲜明,光辉,辉煌

 
physician [fi'ziʃən]

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n. 内科医生

 
solidarity [.sɔli'dæriti]

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n. 团结

 
current ['kʌrənt]

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n. (水、气、电)流,趋势
adj. 流通的

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commuter [kə'mju:tə]

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n. 通勤者,每日往返上班者

 
ladder ['lædə]

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n. 梯子,阶梯,梯状物
n. (袜子)

 

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