I learnt an important ______ from one of my patients. When I first met Linda, she was only six years old, lovely and energetic. ______, an accident happened when she fell into the fire on a camping trip, leaving 30% of her skin surface ______.
Linda was ______ to the hospital and needed three additional surgeries. Between each ______, nurses daily took her for disinfection (消毒).
Overnight, the dressings (敷料) would ______ to the wound and have to be pulled away. Each step was more painful for Linda than the ______ one. For an adult, the disturbing ______ and daily fear prove overwhelming. For a child, it has a(n) ______ forever. Linda’s life would never be the same.
I took care of Linda for the next several years, ______ her scars and freeing areas of tightness in her face and neck. Over that time, her scars faded and her appearance improved ______. Eventually, her family moved away and I ______ her.
Years later, at a national meeting, I ______ a plastic surgeon I knew and he told me he had met a former patient of mine. It was Linda. She was doing extremely well and she was his ______ instead of his patient. Linda had become a nurse and worked with him in a burn ______.
She was the nurse the patients most often asked to clean their wounds and change their dressings. Her compassion and her courage in returning to a burn unit ______ their confidence and reduced their fears. Linda turned her pain into ______. She devoted every day of her life towards helping others ______ their pain.
Physicians can be ______ when we don’t have enough time in a day to complete everything we need to do. Linda taught me the importance of slowing down. Among the best ______ we, as physicians, can give our patients, whether in the exam room or at the bedside in the hospital, is to take the time to show the compassion we feel.
【小题1】A.chance | B.incident | C.lesson | D.memory |
【小题2】A.Besides | B.Otherwise | C.However | D.Therefore |
【小题3】A.abandoned | B.damaged | C.restored | D.exchanged |
【小题4】A.evaluated | B.surrounded | C.admitted | D.required |
【小题5】A.opportunity | B.process | C.performance | D.operation |
【小题6】A.stick | B.adapt | C.appeal | D.object |
【小题7】A.frequent | B.occasional | C.previous | D.gradual |
【小题8】A.relief | B.boredom | C.pain | D.embarrassment |
【小题9】A.reaction | B.impact | C.impression | D.judgment |
【小题10】A.recovering | B.treating | C.fastening | D.moving |
【小题11】A.significantly | B.necessarily | C.relevantly | D.temporarily |
【小题12】A.kept pace of | B.lost track of | C.gave rise to | D.took notice of |
【小题13】A.took in | B.got over | C.called out | D.ran into |
【小题14】A.applicant | B.consultant | C.sponsor | D.colleague |
【小题15】A.unit | B.room | C.model | D.role |
【小题16】A.blessed | B.increased | C.proved | D.defeated |
【小题17】A.sorrow | B.amusement | C.sympathy | D.regret |
【小题18】A.overcome | B.suffer | C.obtain | D.extend |
【小题19】A.hesitant | B.frustrated | C.thrilled | D.content |
【小题20】A.images | B.instructions | C.gifts | D.words |