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etaker, someone who did his very best to reverse their promised positions of his patients – to put their mind and bodies at ease. But there was one house call I remember in particular. It’s seared in the back of my brain as if it happened yesterday. His diabetic patient was having a hypoglycemic attack. He told me to get the orange juice. I did, and I watched him save a woman’s life t hat day. 英語(yǔ)演講稿 5 I’ve never been able to shake the haunting feeling of this specific house call because of the significance it would take on later in my own life – and it reminds me, of course, that even doctors can meet the same inevitable fate of being patients. When I tried to tend to the diabetes my father developed later in life, I thought of that woman’s shaking, pale face. And when I looked at his limbs – a double amputee, and recognized he was in renal failure, I thought of how he fought for a life, when she could not fight for her own. And I thought of how in his twilight years, he was experiencing the same disfort and disease he had so seamlessly kept at bay for everyone else. But even so, I knew we were lucky, my family. We could afford my father’s insulin. We could afford to do what it took to take care of him.