Alice Y. Chang Week Four Unit 3 Emergency Services

Alice Y. Chang Free Association Emergency…. 1__________ 2___________ 3___________ 4___________ 5_____________

Alice Y. Chang Free Association (2) Emergence and medicine… 1. ___________ 2.__________ 3.___________ 4._________ 5.__________

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The Smarter Emergency Kit What inside the emergency kit? 05/st_emergency.html

Alice Y. Chang Main Ideas The article is describing emergency situations happening in a hospital under severe weather conditions in Chicago. All kinds of injuries are taking place and many people are in predicament.

Alice Y. Chang Supporting information 1: the settings After twenty one inches of snow came down, the city of Chicago was paralyzed practically.

Alice Y. Chang More expressions: Grind to a halt: Lose momentum and stop. nd-to-a-halt.html Impassable visibility

Alice Y. Chang Supporting information 2: the consequences… The snow plowing started immediately and highway traffic were open. Doctors and nursed went back to their duties.

Alice Y. Chang Question 1: Why the article says “miraculously” when the doctors and the nurses all made it to the hospital?

Alice Y. Chang More expressions Snowploughs Miraculously Make it to V Chronic dialysis

Alice Y. Chang Supporting information 3 As the temperature dropped sharply, people were doing their best to cover themselves and to protect themselves from the extreme cold.

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Alice Y. Chang Supporting information 4 Despite all the efforts, there were many cases in which people got suffered. There were car accidents, people suffering from physical injuries, and other cold-related health problems occurred to many people.

Alice Y. Chang Question 2 What means “casualty” and what the numerous emergent cases mentioned in the same paragraph have to do with the word?

Alice Y. Chang More expressions Presumed osteoporosis Smash Transient Totally concluded Various viral syndromes

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Think! Classify the related conditions.  how to classify diseases?  nosology? Pathology? The internal medicine/ physicians The surgical medicine/ surgeons

Alice Y. Chang Supporting information 5: incidents and accidents More cases of cold weather related injuries were reported, the most salient ones are the vasoconstriction problems.

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More expressions Intern Unaccustomed to strenuous exercise Heedless of The widely publicized advice Sudden exertions them ? Delegate them to women and children?

Alice Y. Chang Supporting information 6 To conclude the article, the writer gives an account of an extreme case in which a lady exposed herself in the severe weather for more than ten hours and got hurt badly.

Alice Y. Chang More special expressions: Admitted to the hospital/ to my service Heroin Rip-roaring pneumonia Extensive frostbite

Alice Y. Chang Questions 3 In the last paragraph it says “Indicative of our times was the Young woman…..,” what means “our times” here? Fever may be indicative of an infection. 發燒可能表明受了感染。 Fever may be of an infection. a look indicative of joy 顯示高興的臉色 look of joy These latest figures are indicative of a slowing economy. Theselatestfiguresareindicativeofa slowingeconomy

Alice Y. Chang Question 4 In order to prevent similar medical emergencies mentioned in this article from happening, what kind of advices would you give to people?

Alice Y. Chang Question 5: what problems? Typhoon Earthquake Fire Flood

Alice Y. Chang Open discussion Listeners’ comments and questions Readers’ critique

Alice Y. Chang Homework Reading (1): Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art (pp.2-4) Reading (2): Artists Really Do Have Different Brains (pp.7-8) Reading (3): Supplementary reading: Artists Look DifferentSupplementary reading: Artists Look Different Oral reports