行醫如詩

黑龍江 夏偉明

詩歌不只是文人墨客的專屬，它還為救死扶傷的醫護人員帶來內心的慰藉。 它是醫護工作中的潤滑劑，是治愈傷痛的良藥。

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 always 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 (沉浸在) 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 (住院醫生).

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 the 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 and 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 about 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 on medical treatment.C. The similarity involved in poetry and medical work.

D. The present relationship between patients and doctors.

3. What does Andrea Schwartz 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 treatment.

Difficult sentence

Rafael worries that something important has been lost in medicine and medical education today—humanity,which he finds in poetry. 拉斐爾擔心，如今醫學和醫學教育失去了某樣重要的東西——人性，他在詩歌中找到了人性。

【點石成金】本句中的that引導的是一個賓語從句，主句謂語為worries；which引導的是一個非限制性定語從句，先行詞為humanity。