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ISSN 1668-4877 - February
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Here
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HUMOR:
"The Patient and
The Doctor"
An activity for listening comprehension
(good for ESL teachers
and intermediate students)
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HUMOR
STORIES: Another short story with that naive ending typical of the
twenties. Have fun reading and listening to
"The Patient and The Doctor".
HISTORIAS
DE HUMOR: Otra historia graciosa con ese final ingenuo típico de los
años 20.
Diviértete leyendo y escuchando "El Paciente y el Médico".
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This
WMA sound file will be available for download until March
1,
2004
Este
archivo WMA se encontrará disponible para descargar hasta Marzo 1, 2004.
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A
very optimistic doctor is standing beside the bed of one of his patients,
who has been in the hospital for several weeks. The worried patient
asks him:
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PATIENT:
Am I going to get better,
doctor?
DOCTOR: As you know, you
are still quite ill.
PATIENT: Yes, I know,
doctor, I know. But please, don't let me go on with ... with
false hopes. Tell me the truth!
DOCTOR: I've been studying
your case in my medical books, and I've done a lot of research on your
problem.
PATIENT: Please don't try to
soften the blow. Tell me the truth, no
matter what it is.
DOCTOR: I'm convinced that
we can keep you alive. Yes, and I can even say that you are definitely
going to get better!
PATIENT: Wonderful! But I
don't understand how you can be so sure. Up till now all the
other
doctors have told me that the disease is fatal. How can you be sure
that I'm going to get better?
DOCTOR: I'm a scientist in
the art of medicine. I've studied your case carefully.
PATIENT: Yes, Yes ... I
know all of that, doctor...
DOCTOR: In the latest
medical journals, they've published the results of a long study on
this disease.
PATIENT: And what does this
study show?
DOCTOR: In your case, I'll
continue the present treatment and I'll trust in the scientifically
proven statistics.
PATIENT: And do these
statistics show that I'm going to get better?
DOCTOR: Exactly! It's been
proven that ten percent of all the patients with this disease get
better.
PATIENT: What? Only ten
percent? But that's terrible! Does that mean that I have only one
chance in ten of getting better? Are you trying to deceive me when you
tell me that I'm going to get better?
DOCTOR: Calm yourself! Calm
yourself! You don't understand these things. It's a scientific problem.
PATIENT: Please, doctor,
explain.
DOCTOR: All right. As you
will see, there are other factors that have to be considered.
PATIENT: What other factors?
Please, tell me!
DOCTOR: Listen to me. You
are the tenth patient that I've treated for this disease...
PATIENT: Yes, yes, go on.
So I'm the tenth patient that you've treated for this disease... I
still don't understand.
DOCTOR: Simple mathematics,
my good man. You, being the tenth, have to get well, because the other nine died!
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GLOSSARY
optimistic
=/= pessimistic (optimista =/= pesimista); go
on:
continue (seguir, continuar);
false
hopes:
pretended expectations (falsas expectativas); research:
investigation (análisis, investigación); to
soften the blow: make
something appear less severe (disimular el shock);
no
matter what it is:
whatever it is (sea lo que sea); alive
=/= dead (con vida, vivo =/= muerto); up
till now:
up to now (hasta ahora, hasta la fecha);
disease: illness (enfermedad); journals:
periodicals, reports (registros, informes); treatment:
any procedure intended to relieve illness (tratamiento); proven:
demonstrated (comprobadas); to deceive: to cheat (engañar); calm
yourself = become quiet: (cálmese, tranquilícese); factors:
elements (factores, elementos); tenth: position number ten (décimo).
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