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The Patient
and the Doctor

 2m 08s - American English

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...

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 have 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!

GLOSSARY

patients: people under the care of doctors (pacientes)
get better: improve in health (mejorar)
go on: continue (seguir, continuar)
false hopes: untrue expectations (falsas expecta-tivas)
research = investigation (estudio, investigación)
soften the blow: make a sudden unexpected shock seem less severe (suavizar el golpe)
no matter what: whatever (no importa cuál)
convinced = confident (convencido)
up till now = up to the present (hasta ahora)
disease = illness (enfermedad)

journal: a periodical (informe periódico)
 proven statistics = demonstrated stats (estadísticas reales, demostradas)
it's been proven = it has been proven (se ha demostrado)
chance = probability (probabilidad)
deceive: be dishonest with (engañar)
factors = elements (factores, elementos)
tenth: position ten in a countable series of things (décimo)
you, being the tenth = if you are the tenth (usted, siendo el décimo; si usted es el décimo)
get well: become well.

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