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Sam
is a fourth-year student at Harvard Medical School, but poetry is still a
big part of his life, now
with a new teacher, Rafael
Campo, who
believes poetry can benefit every doctor's education and work. Rafael is a
physician, professor
and a highly respected poet.
"Poetry
is in every encounter(邂逅)with
my patients. I think healing is really in a very great way about poetry. And if
we do anything when we're with our patients, we're really
immersing(使沉浸于)ourselves
in their stories, really
hearing their voices. And, certainly, that's what a poem
does, "he
said.
Rafael
worries that something important has been lost in medicine and medical education
today: humanity, which he finds in
poetry. To end that, he
leads a weekly reading and writing workshop for medical students and residents(住院医生).
He
thinks medical training focuses too much on distancing the doctor from his or
her patients, and
poems can help close that gap.
Third-year
resident Andrea Schwartz was one of the workshop regulars. She said. "I
think there's no other profession other than medicine that produces as many
writers as it does. And I think that is because there's just so much power in
doctors and patients interacting when patients are at their saddest. "Not
everyone believes that's what doctors should do, though.
Rafael
said, "I
was afraid of how people might judge me, actually. In the
medical profession, as
many people know, we
must always put the emergency first. But, you know, that kind of treatment, if it's happening in
the hospital, very
regrettably, sadly, results in a bad
outcome. The family is sitting by the bedside. The patient hasn't survived the
cancer. Don't we still have a role as healers there?"
In
a poem titled" Health", Rafael writes of the wish to live forever
in a world made painless by our incurable joy. He says he will continue
teaching students, helping
patients and writing poems, his own brand of medicine.
(1)
What do we know about Rafael Campo?
A . He works as a doctor.
B . He is under medical care.
C . He is a literature professor.
D . He knows little about poetry.
(2)
What does the author try to show in Paragraph 2 ?
A . The importance of medical training.
B . The effect of poetry in medical treatment.
C . The similarity involved in poetry and medical work.
D . The present relationship between patients and doctors.
(3)
What does Andrea Schwaflz think of poetry?
A . It comforts patients' family.
B . It contributes to medical work.
C . It has nothing to do with doctors.
D . It keeps doctors away from patients.
(4)
What is Rafael Campo's view on poetry?
A . It requires a lot of spare time.
B . It can provide a useful tool for doctors.
C . It has little effect on patients' conditions.
D . It should be included in emergency treatments.
答案: A
C
B
B