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Cho: I’m not sure I’m cut out to be a doctor.
Joy: I think you’ll be great. I’ve seen you with patients and you have a great bedside manner – not like Gregory.
Cho: Why? What’s wrong with his bedside manner?
Joy: I’ve seen him with patients and he can be really callous. For instance, I was in the room last week when he was telling one of his patients that she was taking a turn for the worse.
Cho: What did he say?
Joy: He just blurted it out. He told her the diagnosis, and he didn’t even try to soften the news when she asked about her prognosis. He did absolutely nothing to try to comfort or reassure her.
Cho: I feel sorry for the patient.
Joy: That’s the point. Gregory didn’t, and it didn’t seem to faze him that the patient was very upset and close to hysterics.
Cho: That’s terrible. I’ll try to remember to be more compassionate with my patients.
Joy: Don’t worry. It’s against your nature to be anything but considerate.
Keywords:
1.cut out - created to do something.
2.bedside manner - means that a doctor how to communicate with his patients.
3.callous - without considering anther person's feelings.
4.taking a turn for the worse - to be getting worse expecially health.
5.blurted it out - to say something without thinking about it first and how it will sound to the other person.
6.diagnosis - the doctors conclusion about the what the medical problem is.
7.soften - to make it nicer and easier to accept. Tell someone something in such a way that it doesn't upset them.
8.prognosis - is the doctor opinion about how your health will change in the future.
9.comfort - to make people feel better.
10.reassure - make them feel better about sth.(is similar to comfort)
11.feel sorry for - Sb. is to understand the person's difficulty or to empathize with someone.
12.didn't seem to faze him - you are surprise because someone else wasn't affective by something or didn't have strong reation to something that he should have reaction to.
13.hysterics - is when you have uncontrol emotions
14.compassionate - to be careing, to be kind, to be nice to someone
15.against your nature - it's not part of your personality,character and who you are.
16.anything but considerate - to be nice, to be nature, to be aware of other people’s feeling.
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