① It is said that （据说）in England death is pressing（难以推却）, in Canada inevitable 不可避免and（but） in California optional. ② Small wonder不足为奇. ③ Americans' life expectancy寿命 has nearly doubled over the past century.
- Failing 出故障 hips can be replaced, clinical depression临床抑郁症 controlled, cataracts白内障 removed in a 30-minute surgical 外科手术procedure. ⑤Such advances offer the aging population a quality of life that was unimaginable when I entered medicine 50 years ago. ⑥ But not even a great health-care system can cure death一and our failure to confront面对 正视 that reality now threatens this greatness of ours.
① Death is normal; we are genetically基因上地 programmed to设定为 disintegrate解体 and perish灭亡, even under ideal conditions.② We all understand that at some level, yet as medical consumers we treat death as a problem to be solved.③ Shielded 保护 by third-party payers from the cost of our care, we demand 要求 everything that can possibly be done for us, even if it' s useless.④ The most obvious example is late-stage cancer care.⑤ Physicians一frustrated by their inability to cure the disease and fearing loss of hope in the patient—too often offer aggressive treatment far beyond what is scientifically justified正当.文章源自潍坊木杉教育信息网-http://wfbohan.cn/313/
① In 1950, the U.S. spent $12.7 billion on health care.② In 2002, the cost will be $1540 billion.③ Anyone can see this trend is unsustainable不可持续.④ Yet few seem willing to try to reverse 扭转 it.文章源自潍坊木杉教育信息网-http://wfbohan.cn/313/
- Some scholars conclude that a government with finite 有限 resources should simply stop paying for medical care that sustains维系 life beyond a certain age一say 83 or so.⑥ Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm has been quoted as saying that the old and infirm "have a duty to die and get out of the way" so that
younger, healthier people can realize their potential.文章源自潍坊木杉教育信息网-http://wfbohan.cn/313/
① I would not go that far. ② Energetic people now routinely往往 work through their 60s and beyond, and remain dazzlingly惊人的 productive.③ At 78, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone jokingly claims to be 53. ④ Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O' Connor is in her 70s, and former文章源自潍坊木杉教育信息网-http://wfbohan.cn/313/
surgeon general C. Everett Koop chairs 主持an Internet start-up in his 80s.⑤ These leaders are living proof that prevention works and that we can manage the health problems that come naturally with age. (6) As a mere 68-year-old, I wish to age as productively as they have.文章源自潍坊木杉教育信息网-http://wfbohan.cn/313/
① Yet there are limits to what a society can spend in this pursuit追求.② As a physician, I know the most costly and dramatic measures may be ineffective and painful.③ I also know that people in Japan and Sweden, countries that spend far less on medical care, have achieved longer, healthier lives than we have. ④ As a nation, we may be overfunding 过多资金the quest for unlikely cures while underfunding research on humbler 普通的therapies 疗法that could improve people' s lives.文章源自潍坊木杉教育信息网-http://wfbohan.cn/313/
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