TED中英官方演讲稿-JamieHeywood_2009P我弟弟激发出的好点子.docxVIP

1.When my brother called me in December of 1998 he said the news does not look good. 1998年12月，我弟弟打电话告诉我， 他的病情不太好了。2.This is him on the screen. 屏幕上这个人就是他。3.Hed just been diagnosed with ALS, which is a disease that the average lifespan is three years. 他那时刚刚被诊断为肌萎缩性侧索硬化症。 患上这个病后，平均寿命仅剩三年。4.It paralyzes you. It starts by killing the motor neurons in your spinal cord. 它通过杀死脊髓中的运动神经元， 致使病人瘫痪。5.And you go from being a healthy, robust 29 year old male, to someone that cannot breathe, cannot move, cannot speak. 它使你从一个健康的、 强壮的29岁男人， 变成一个无法呼吸， 无法移动，无法说话的人。6.This has actually been, to me, a gift, because we began a journey to learn a new way of thinking about life. 然而，这对于我来说，确是一个礼物， 因着它，我们开始了一段 重新认识生命的旅程。7.And even though Steven passed away three years ago we had an amazing journey as a family. 尽管斯蒂夫三年前离开了， 我们还是作为一个家庭，共度了这个奇妙的旅程。8.We did not even -- I think adversity is not even the right word. 我们甚至没有—— 我想，“不幸”甚至都不适于用来形容这段经历。9.We looked at this and we said were going to do something with this in an incredibly positive way. 我们审视着这个事实，而后决定， 我们要用一种惊人的积极来面对它。10.And I want to talk today about one of the things that we decided to do, which was to think about a new way of approaching healthcare. 于是，我今天将要 说一说其中一件我们决定要做的事。 我们想探索一条医疗保健的新路。11.Because, as we all know here today, it doesnt work very well. 因为，正如我们所知， 现今的医疗方法并不尽如人意。12.I want to talk about it in the context of a story. 下面，我将结合一个故事，讲讲我们所做的这件事。13.This is the story of my brother. 这是关于我弟弟的故事。14.But its just a story. And I want to go beyond the story, and go to something more. 但，我希望跨出这件事的范围， 触及更深远的东西。15.Given my status, what is the best outcome I can hope to achieve, and how do I get there? “鉴于我现在的状态，什么是我能期待达到的最好的结果， 我又如何去得到它？”16.Is what we are here to do in medicine, is what everyone should do. 这句话是我们在这里针对医疗所做的探索，也是每个人应该做的思考。17.And those questions all have variables to them. 每个人的问题和解答都不同18.All of our statuses are different. 因为我们每个人的状况都不一样，19.All of our hopes a