On a Monday morning, Kaleb, who was an assistant in a Vietnam hospital, noticed me outside the Covid-19 wad(病房). I was then _______trying to find out about my elder brother’s _______.But it was a terrible day for doctors-some patients had died, and new _______were being wheeled in throughout.

After spotting me, Kaleb _______to me and asked if he could help. I told him it had been three days since my brother was put on a ventilator(呼吸机), and no one came to update us. Kaleb_______help and told me that there had been no turn for the_______in the last 10 hours.

After that, I was_______because it was just what I needed to hear while I waited for an hour outside the ward, anxious and _______, I told Kaleb how depressed I had felt until his _______cut through my pane.

In the following days, I oten________Kaleb and his colleagues to acquire messages about my elder brother, bringing support and ________. His hopeful words gave me some relief. In the most difficult times in my life, such kind, calming words________a lot to me.

When my elder brother was discharged after nearly a month, I sent a message, expressing my gratitude to him for his________help and endless efforts. And I was so impressed by his ________under such a hard situation, He is a ________in this fight like doctors and nurses.

Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of five with her family. While ______ her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(n) ______ in medicine. At 18 she married and started a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a ______. Her husband supported her decision.

______, Canadian medical schools did not accept women students at that time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study ______ at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to ______ her medical degree.

Upon graduation, Charlotte ______ to Montreal and set up a private clinic. Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a ______ doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte ______ herself operating on damaged limbs and setting ______ bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.

But Charlotte had been practising without a licence. She had ______ a doctor’s licence in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was refused. The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all­male board, wanted her to ______ her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to ______her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887, she appealed to the Manitoba Legislature to issue a licence to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte ______to practise without a licence until 1912. She died four years later at the age of 73.

In 1993, 77 years after her ______, a medical licence was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman”.

I was appointed to tend to this patient several weeks ago and began to grow closer to her. Communicating with her was _________ because everything she wanted to say to me had to be written on a notepad. As a nursing graduate, I was able to read her mind by observing even a slight _________ in a patient’s facial expression.

One day, when I was checking the patient, she _________ me on the shoulder to show me a note, “Do you think I could leave the hospital in a month to see my niece get married?” Taking her hand in mine, I told her that I could not ___________ her, because I did not want to leave her a false sense of hope. ___________, I made her believe that I would be there with her every step of the way on her journey toward _________. Hearing that, the patient gave me a _________ and a hug.

Day by day, I built her _________ by walking around the floor with her. As I did this, I could see before my own eyes that her health was _________ improving and that she was able to walk more steadily. On her last day in hospital, just before her niece’s ____________, she wrote me one last note, “I couldn’t have done this ____________ you; I love you.” After kissing goodbye, I had a strong sense of achievement. I realized that moments like this were ____________ I woke up early for work in the hospital and spent long hours with her. I truly felt, as her ____________ confirmed, that I was an ____________ part of this woman’s recovery. My experience with this patient shows me that this career allows me to touch the lives of people in ways that people in other ____________ will never get to experience.