第二周 | (开始)着手 | take sth on | after retirement, he took on bioethics. |
| 知道,懂得,理解 | know; understand; realize; acknowledge | |
| 介入,插足 | step in | when they began to fight,i stepped in to stop it before they were hurt. |
| 高风险的 | the poor risk | they have made billions in profits from meidcine by insuring healthy individuals and avoiding the poor-risk patient. |
| 与...作斗争 | contend with sth | we will continue to contend with corruption. |
| 装配流程理念 | assenmbly-line mentality | |
| 可憎的 | abhorrent | i find it abhorrent to apply business principles to medicine. |
| 除了 | other than | to ask physicians to be anything other than good physicians and to use the assembly-line mentality is a troublesome concept. |
| 省略句的用法 | 上文:a troublesome concept | 下文:i'm sure it is for all patient. |
| 痊愈 | tiresome/wholesome | |
| 彻头彻尾的,极其的 | in the extreme | to save medical daollars by bureaucratic means is unethical in the extreme. |
| 以另外一种方式 | another way; otherwise | to think about how profitbal it might be to do it another way. |
| 美文 | a patient is not a client or a customer but a human who deserves the best that modern medicine can provide. | |