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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: to be created to do something. something is good nature for you.
2.patient: people who are receving medical care or attention from doctor or nurse.
3.beside manner:how the doctor treats his patient
4.callous: Do something without consider someone else.
5.taking a turn for the worse: become worse.
6.blurted it out: to say something without thinking it first.
7.diagnosis: the doctors conclusion.
8.soften:to make it easier.
9.prognosis:the doctor's opinion about how your health will change in the future.
10.comfort: to make people feel better.
11.reassure: to give someone confident.
12.feel sorry for:to understand someone's upset.
13.didn’t seem to faze him:somone else isn't affected by something.
14.hysterics: someone has uncontrol emotion.
15.compassionate: to be kind to someone.
16.against your nature: not a part of someone's personality.
17.anything but considerate: to be nice to be aware other people's feeling.
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Nice notes, Candy.
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