Unit 5 Knowledge and Ignorance
Words and phras expected of students to understand
palpitate
five days straight
wiggle
leaf v.
prop up on pillows/against the wall
Dawn broke on the doctor’s face
rule out
social milieu
in a huddle
扇贝a suggestion of…
I detected a suggestion of malice in his remarks.
in due cour
Preparatory Work
（1）
Symptom | Checkup | Diagnosisfebruary是什么意思 | Clinic | Other |
cough （咳嗽） prolonged emptying time （排空时间过长） | have an orthodiagram（拍X线片—注：平常人不这么说，就是take an X-ray） have an EKG（做心电图） have a Fluoroaortogram (做主动脉造影) | functional （功能性的） 正定矩阵vascular （血管的） hypertensive （高血压的） pylorospasm (幽门痉挛) cardiomegaly （心脏肥大症） minimal left ventricular hypertrophy (微小左心室肥厚) peripheral vascular spasticity （周围血管痉挛） | Gastroenterology消化科 Neorology( 神经病学) Neuropsychology (神经心理学) rheumatology (风湿病学) | AMA (美国医药协会) Gastro-Intestinal （胃肠道的） illuminaaortic valve （主动脉瓣） the great arteries （主动脉） peripheral capillary bed （周围毛细血管床） rheumatologist （风湿病医生） tubular function （肾小管功能） filtration fraction （滤过分数） |
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The following are just for your reference
The Inadequencies of Modern Orthodiagramatic Techniques in Demonstrating Minimal Left Ventricular Hypertrophy 当代影像技术在显示微小左心室肥厚方面的不足之处
the Diagnostic Clinic (诊断科) vs. the Therapeutic Clinic (治疗科) vs. the Functional Clinic(功能科)//Mitral Valve Clinic (二尖瓣科) vs. Aortic Valve Clinic (主动脉瓣科) (allthe clinics are made up for satirical effect)
psychoneuroticist神经心理医生（a made-up word, possibly coined from Psychoneurosis 精神神经病 or Neuropsychology 神经心理学）
psychosociologist社会心理医生（a made-up word; psycho+ sociologist）
pituitary osmoreceptorologist渗透压感受器专家？？（a word possibly coined from pituitary osmoreceptor渗透压感受器）
（2）The story was published in 1963, and in the story a doctor says it’s 1972, which means that the story has a futuristic tting.
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It’s not a typical science fiction as I understand the term, for science fiction, though hard to define, usually involves wilderimaginativeconceptssuch asfuturisticscienceandtechnology,space travel,time travel,parallel universandextraterrestrial life.
Yet it may be viewed as a story of science fiction in the n that the author makes up a futuristic ttingof extremely meticulous divisions of medicine to warn against such a trend, since science fiction also means, according to science fiction writerRobert A. Heinlein, “realistic speculation about possible future events, bad solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and prent, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.”
But, to be honest, I do think it’s more a satire than science fiction.
（3）There are altogether 13 doctors besides the Turk. (Interesting number!)
The doctor (community doctor?)---the red-headed doctor (Gastro-Intestinal man) andDr.
Schultz (the Orthopedic Radiologist)---another doctor(possibly alsoOrthopedic Radiologist), who brought two more doctors (in Valve Clinic)---the Miltral man, the Aortic man, the Great Arteries man and the Peripheral Capillary Bed man---doctor in the Functional Clinic---Psychoneuroticist, Psychosociologist— the Turk ( Is he really a Turk? I don’t know what’透析英语法s his field.)
（4）They are italicized for emphasis. They are to be read out aloud.
Para. 9 Fifty-five The doctor shows his incredulity. He believes 55 as a critical age but the man hasn’t had a checkup for almost 10 years.
Para.13 …you may be feeling well, it implies that the doctor doesn’t believe he is actually well.
Para.24 …I could do that… The doctor was shocked that the patient was “ignorant” to the extent that he asked only for sth. to stop the pain. According to the doctor, the root cau of the problem had to be found out first.
Para. 24 …more…aspirin poisoning than of cyanide poisoning The two words are emphasized to distinguish them and to let the information sink in.
Para. 26 we have to thinkonlyyou什么意思 about… The doctor implies that Wheatley hasn’t
thought much about his own health.
Para. 37 I don’t think so. It is implied by the emphasis that Wheatley fails to understand the word Fluoroaortogram.
Para.38 Now this patient--- The doctor suddenly realized his purpo of coming here.
Para. 41 you mustn’t worry. The doctor thinks that Wheatley has the reasons to be worried but that his worry might make the situation wor. Therefore he mustn’t worry.
Critical Reading:
1.Questions
(1)He was very nervous.
(2)He doesn’zoo的复数形式t think Wheatley’s complaints have much value. He has his own professional training of inquiring.
(3)competentHe is an Orthopedic Radiologist (And I think he is a colleague of Dr. Schultz’s). He mentions the article in details possibly becau it’s his recent focus of attention, or in other words he is still thinking about it when he talks.
(4)I don’t know for sure where he went or what brought him there. I think both the Turkish drapes and the turban are ud to give an exotic flavor to that place, to form a sharp contrast with the previous “scientific” atmosphere. He might or might not be a Turk. Still we know this last resort of Wheatley’s must be some branch of the “alternative medicine”, which according the Wikipedia, “is any practice that is put forward as having thehealingeffects of medicine, but does not originate fromevidencegathered using thescientific method.”
