雙語美文：傾聽是一劑良藥

1、雙語美文：傾聽是一劑良藥我再也不想對別人提起自己的過往，那些掙扎在夢魘中的寂寞， 荒蕪，還是交給時間，慢慢冷淡。幾米 Studies have shown it takes a physician about 18 seconds to interrupt a patient after they begin talking. 研究證明，醫(yī)患開始交談后， 醫(yī)生會在大概 18 秒后打斷病人的談話。It was Sunday. I had one last patient to see. I approached her room in a hurry and stood at the doorw

2、ay. She was an older woman, sitting at the edge of the bed, struggling to put socks on her swollen feet. I crossed the threshold, spoke quickly to the nurse, scanned her chart noting she was in stable condition. I was almost in the clear. 那是一個周日，我要去見最后 一位病人。我匆匆忙忙地走向她的病房，站到了門口。 病人是位老婦人，此時她正坐在床沿上努力為自己

3、浮腫的雙腳穿 上襪子。我跨進(jìn)屋，快速和護(hù)士進(jìn)行了交流，然后看了看病人的病歷表。 根據(jù)表格上的記錄，她目前狀況穩(wěn)定。一套程序下來，我?guī)缀鯖]遇到什么困難。I leaned on the bedrail looking down at her. She asked if I could help put on her socks. Instead, I launched into a monologue that wentsomething like this: “ Howare you feeling? Your sugars and bloodpressure were high but the

4、y' re better today. The nurse meynotuio'nerdeanxious to see your son who's visiting you today. It ' s nice to have favisit from far away. I bet you really look forward to seeing him.你的兒子今天要來看你，護(hù)士說你非常想見他。 有家人遠(yuǎn)道來看望自己真是不錯。我相信你真的很渴望見到他。大概就是這類話。She stopped me with a stern, authori tative

5、voice.“Sit down, doctor.This is my story, not your story.她用一種嚴(yán)厲、命令性的口氣將我打斷： “大夫，坐下來。這是我的事兒，不是你的。I was surprised and embarrassed. I sat down. I helped her with the socks. She began to tell me that her only son lived around the corner from her, but she had not seen him in five years. She believed that

6、 the stress of this contributed greatly to her health problems. Afterhearing her story and putting on her socks, I asked if there was anything else I could do for her. She shook her head no and smiled. All she wanted me to do was to listen. 我既驚訝又為難。我坐了下來，幫她穿襪子。 她告訴我，她的獨(dú)生子就住在她家附近，但她已經(jīng)有五年沒見到兒子了她相信，這件事

7、給她的壓力很大程度上加重了她的病情。 聽完她的故事并幫她穿上襪子后， 我問她，我還能為她做些什么。 她搖了搖頭表示沒有，然后笑了起來。 她要讓我做的全部事情就是聽她講故事。Each story is different. Some are detailed; others are vague. Some have a beginning, middle and end. Others wander without a clear conclusion. Some are true; others not. Yet all those things do not really matter. W

8、hat matters to the storyteller is that the story is heard -without interruption, assumption or judgment.不過，這些要素都不是最重要的。對講述者來說， 真正重要的是， 這個故事要有人去傾聽 不要打 斷，不要臆斷，也不要去評價。Listening to someone'sstory costs less than expensive diagnostic test ing but is key to heali ng and diag no sis去聽別人講故事比進(jìn)行昂貴的 診斷測試本錢

9、低得多，但它卻是治療和診斷的關(guān)鍵。I often thought of what that woman taught me, and I reminded myself of the importance of stopping, sitting down and truly listening.And, not long after, in an unexpected twist, I became the patient, with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at age 31. Now, 20 years later, I sit all the

10、 time -in a wheelchair我經(jīng)常去琢磨，那個老婦人究竟讓我懂得了什么放下自己的想法，坐下來真誠地傾聽，我提醒自己要銘記這樣做的重要性。而就在那次會面過去不久后， 事情發(fā)生了意想不到的大扭轉(zhuǎn) 我 被確診患上了多發(fā)性硬化癥，成了一名病人。那年我 31 歲。如今，20 年過去了，我需要一直坐著 坐在輪椅中。For as long as I could, I continued to see patients from my chair, but I had to resign when my hands were affected. I still teach med studen

11、ts and other health care professionals, but now from the perspective of physician and patient. 我曾盡自己所能，繼續(xù)坐在輪椅上去看病人，但當(dāng)我的雙 手也出現(xiàn)病癥后，我不得不選擇退休。如今我仍然為醫(yī)科學(xué)生和其他醫(yī)療專業(yè)人員上課，但現(xiàn)在不僅僅 是站在醫(yī)生的角度 還有病人的角度。I tell them I believe in the power of listening. I tell them I know firsthand that immeasurable healing takes place within me when some on estops, sits dow n and liste ns to my story我跟他們說，我相信傾聽 是味良藥。我告訴他們，我親身體會到，當(dāng)有人停下自己的事，坐下來