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1、1 考研英语(真题)阅读理解专题(十)Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients pain,even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.Nancy Dubler,director of Montefiore Medical Center,contends that the principle will shie

2、ld doctors who until now have very,very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death.George Annas,chair of the health law department at Boston University,maintains that,as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate

3、 medical purpose,the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death.Its like surgery,he says.We dont call those deaths homicides because the doctors didnt intend to kill their patients,although they risked their death.If youre a physician,you can risk your patients

4、 suicide as long as you dont intend their suicide.On another level,many in the medical community 精品w o r d 学习资料 可编辑资料-精心整理-欢迎下载-第 1 页，共 5 页2 acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dy

5、ing.Just three weeks before the Courts ruling on physician-assisted suicide,the National Academy of Science(NAS)released a two-volume report,Approaching Death:Improving Care at the End of Life.It identifies the under treatment of pain and the aggressive use of ineffectual and forced medical procedur

6、es that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying as the twin problems of end-of-life care.The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices,to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies,to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care,and to

7、develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life.Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives translate into better care.Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably

8、 suffering,to the extent that it constitutes systematic patient abuse.He says medical licensing boards must make it clearthat painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and 精品w o r d 学习资料 可编辑资料-精心整理-欢迎下载-第 2 页，共 5 页3 should result in license suspension.1.From the first thre

9、e paragraphs,we learn that.Adoctors used to increase drug dosages to control their patients pain.Bit is still illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives.Cthe Supreme Court strongly opposes physician-assisted suicide.Dpatients have no constitutional right to commit suicide.2.Which of the f

10、ollowing statements its true according to the text?ADoctors will be held guilty if they risk their patients death.BModern medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless recovery.CThe Court ruled that high-dosage pain-relieving medication can be prescribed.DA doctors medication is no longe

11、r justified by his intentions.3.According to the NASs report,one of the problems in end-of-life care is.精品w o r d 学习资料 可编辑资料-精心整理-欢迎下载-第 3 页，共 5 页4 Aprolonged medical procedures.Binadequate treatment of pain.Csystematic drug abuse.Dinsufficient hospital care.4.Which of the following best defines the

12、 word aggressive(line 3,paragraph 7)?ABold.BHarmful.CCareless.DDesperate.5.George Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if they.Amanage their patients incompetently.Bgive patients more medicine than needed.Creduce drug dosages for their patients.Dprolong the needless suffering of the patients.参考答案:1.B 2.C 3.B 4.A 5.D 考研英语(真题)阅读理解专题(十)相关内容:精品w o r d 学习资料 可编辑资料-精心整理-欢迎下载-第 4 页，共 5 页5 精品w o r d 学习资料 可编辑资料-精心整理-欢迎下载-第 5 页，共 5 页