HOSPITAL?!

All doctors swear to do no harm to their patients, but medical mistakes kill enough people each week to fill four jumbo jets. Were medical errors a disease, they would be the sixth leading cause of death —just behind accidents and ahead of Alzheimer’s. What other industry misses the mark this often?

Change can start with two simple but crucial reforms. First, video recording can be used to enhance compliance among medical experts. Reviewing videos of surgery can also lead to quality improvement. Second, each hospital should have an online dashboard to include important information such as rates for infection, readmission, surgical complications and “never event” errors. To make transparency more effective, government must play a role in making fair and accurate reports available to the public. In doing so, it will unleash the power of the free market. When hospitals have to compete on measures of safety, they will no doubt improve how they serve their patients.

If you won’t sit down for a meal before checking a restaurant’s performance ratings, why shouldn’t you be able to do the same thing when your life is at stake?

Q：What’s the best title for this article?

A. How to Prevent Hospitals From Killing Us.

B. Why Doctors Overlook Medical Errors.

C. Hospitals Are Moving Toward Increased Transparency.

D. The Role of Government In Fixing Health Care.

答案：A       << 用滑鼠框起來反白，就可以看到答案

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精選多益/ 全民英檢中(高)級/ 托福單字片語

1. swear (v) 發誓

2. do harm to N：對…造成危害

3. patient (n) 病患

4. error (n) 錯誤過失

5. disease (n) 疾病

6. leading (adj) 主要的；最重要的

7. cause (n) 原因

8. mark (n) 標準

9. crucial (adj) 重要的

10. reform (n) 改革

11. enhance (v) 提高；增加

12. compliance (n) 服從

13. review (v) 評論；檢閱

14. surgery (n) 手術

15. improvement (n) 改善；提升

16. dashboard (n) 儀表板

17. include (v) 包含

18. infection (n) 感染

19. readmission (n) 再入院

20. complication (n) 併發症

21. never event error：不應發生的失誤

22. transparency (n) 透明化

23. effective (adj) 有效率

24. play a role in N：在…上扮演一個角色

25. fair (adj) 公平的

26. accurate (adj) 正確的

27. available (adj) 可取得的

28. unleash (v) 解開…束縛

29. compete (v) 競爭

30. measure (n) 措施；基準

31. no doubt：無庸置疑地

32. serve (v) 為…服務

33. at stake：深陷危險之中

34. prevent (v) 避免

35. overlook (v) 忽視

36. increase (v) 增加

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《實習醫生》CHASING THE CARS

Artist: Snow Patrol Lyrics
Song: Chasing Cars Lyrics

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel

Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?