新概念英語第四冊(含lrc文本)Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

[ti:δ?] [by:https://www.lrc.com.cn] [00:03.28]Lesson 28 [00:05.15] Patients and doctors [00:11.94]What are patients looking for when they visit the doctor? [00:17.31]This is a sceptical age, [00:19.72]but although our faith in many of the things [00:22.03]in which our forefathers fervently believed has weakened, [00:26.15]our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of medicine [00:30.18]remains the same as theirs. [00:33.04]This modern faith in medicines is proved by the fact [00:36.43]that the annual drug bill of the Health Services is mounting to astronomical figures. [00:42.61]and shows no signs at present of ceasing to rise. [00:47.14]The majority of the patients [00:48.62]attending the medical out-patients departments of our hospitals feel that [00:53.01]they have not received adequate treatment unless they are able to carry home with them [00:58.65]some tangible remedy in the shape of a bottle of medicine, [01:03.13]a box of pills,or a small jar of ointment, [01:06.92]and the doctor in charge of the department [01:09.11]is only too ready to provide them with these requirements. [01:13.26]There is no quicker method of disposing of patients [01:16.22]than by giving them what they are asking for, [01:19.74]and since most medical men in the Health Services are overworked [01:24.35]and have little time for offering time-consuming [01:27.37]and little-appreciated advice on such subjects as diet, [01:31.89]right living,and the need for abandoning bad habits etc., [01:37.07]the bottle,the box,and the jar are almost always granted them. [01:43.08]Nor is it only the ignorant and ill-educated person [01:46.59]who has such faith in the bottle of medicine. [01:50.25]It is recounted of Thomas Carlyle [01:52.66]that when he heard of the illness of his friend,Henry Taylor, [01:56.46]he went off immediately to visit him, [01:59.69]carrying with him in his pocket what remained a bottle of medicine [02:03.95]formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs.Carlyle's. [02:09.22]Carlyle was entirely ignorant of what the bottle in his pocket contained, [02:14.12]of the nature of the illness from which his friend was suffering, [02:17.64]and of what had previously been wrong with his wife, [02:20.85]but a medicine that had worked so well in one form of illness [02:25.01]would surely be of equal benefit in another, [02:28.34]and comforted by the thought of the help he was bringing to his friend, [02:32.36]he hastened to Henry Taylor's house. [02:35.64]History does not relate whether his friend accepted his medical help, [02:40.51]but in all probability he did. [02:43.85]The great advantage of taking medicine is that it makes no demands on the taker [02:48.83]beyond that of putting up for a moment with a disgusting taste, [02:53.26]and that is what all patients demand of their doctors-- [02:57.34]to be cured at no inconvenience to themselves.

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