综合英语unit 9.pptVIP

About the author: Richard Selzer An American Physician (1928-) Awards National Magazine Award, American Medical Writers Award Richard Selzer quotas Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God. I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy. Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. highlights This text is a piece of narration. The narrator, as a doctor, had a unique habit of “spying on” his patients for the sake of better medical treatment. He met with a particular patient with a strange habit of throwing the plate. This caused a conflict between the man and the head nurse. Finally the patient died, and the doctor discovered that the man starved himself to death when he paid attention to the repeatedly washed place where the scrambled eggs dropped to the floor. summary The story begins with the doctor-narrator unobtrusively observing an older man lying in a hospital bed. The patient is blind and has amputations of both legs. (We are given no medical details that cannot be observed in the room.) The narrator tends to the mans amputation wounds and answers a few simple questions. The man requests a pair of shoes. Back in the corridor, a nurse tells the doctor that the patient refuses his food, throwing his china plate against the wall of his room. The narrator hears the man and a nurse argue briefly about food and then, by himself, watches as the patient carefully and powerfully throws another dish against the wall. The next day the doctor discovers that the patient has died. The Discus Thrower Myron? Discobolus (Discus thrower)? 460-450 B.C. Marble copy of?? bronze original. 5 feet high? perfect athletic form Discussion: Why is the short story entitled “The Discus Thrower” Doctor and patient Describe a terminally ill patient yo