2017年职称英语 考试 报名|2017年职称英语综合类B级完型填空练习4

　Uncooperative Patients Need Psychological Therapy

　　By refusing to take essential medication after a kidney transplant, a 49-year-old women drives her doctors and nurses to distraction一to no avail ，because the organ has in the end to be removed. ___1__Patients refusing to cooperate with medical professionals cause damage not only to themselves but also impose substantial costs on the community. The pharmaceutical company Glaxo Welcome estimates the costs to the German taxpayers of this kind of negative behaviour at around five billion dollars a year.

　　A recent conference of medical professionals，health insurers，the pharmaceutical industry and patient representatives revealed a wide range of factors behind non-compliance. Not all defiant behaviour in a patient can be characterized as non-compliance. Greater stress should be placed on psychology during medical training，delegates said.___2___

　　Psychologist Sibylle Storkebaum told of an eight-year-old boy who ran amok in a hospital before undergoing a heart transplant，threatening to rip out his drip tubes.____3___" Doctors and nurses failed to see that they had downgraded a boy already conscious of his own responsibilities into a small child，" Storkebaum said，explaining that the boy merely wanted to be

　　taken seriously and to be involved in his own treatment. "Once this was acknowledged，the anger

　　attacks subsided.___4___" Jan-Torsten Tews of Glaxo Welcome highlighted the problem of excessive medication，with patients having to take a wide range of medicines at short intervals. Educating patients and self-management were the key to treating patients with chronic conditions，he said.

　　Health insurers also expressed interest in better cooperation between doctor and patient. “The fact that non-compliance exists is a result of patient dissatisfaction with their treatment，" Walter Bockemuehl，a senior executive in the statutory medical insurance scheme，said. According to one study，half of all patients did not want medication，but had drugs prescribed nevertheless. ___5___

　　词汇:

　　Medication n.药物治疗，药剂

　　kidney n.肾

　　transplant n.移植

　　distraction n.心烦意乱

　　avail n.用处

　　non-compliance n.不顺从，固执

　　professional n.专业人员

　　impose vt.把……强加给..

　　pharmaceutical adj.制药的，药学的

　　insurer n.承保人，保险公司

　　defiant adj.反抗的，无礼的

　　characterize vt.表示……的性格特征

　　therapy n.治疗，疗法

　　insecure adj.缺乏安全感的

　　amok adj. &adv.狂怒的(地) ，狂暴的(地)

　　fit n.(轻微疾病、强烈感情等的一阵) 发作

　　rage n. (一阵)盛怒，狂怒

　　assert vt. (坚决)主张，坚持，维护

　　downgrade vt.贬低，小看

　　subside vi.消退，消失

　　noticeably adv.明显地

　　highlight vt.使显著，强调，把注意力集中于……

　　dissatisfaction n.不满意

　　statutory adj.法定的

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