医学英语讲演稿

Last year, the journal "the Lancet" had published an article, illustrated the difficult situation Chinese doctors were facing. In this article, doctor's image in people's heart was no longer the "white angel" but "white wolf", and doctors' safety was violated frequently. Which make us think: What has happened to our career? In fact, medical careers are never an easy road, as we all know, medical exams are the most difficult items to pass, and it costs more time to become a qualified doctor. For example, if a medical student wants to find a job in a large-scale general hospital in Shanghai, he must first spend 11 years in college to get a doctor's degree, and then attend the Resident Training for another 3 years. When he finally gets the job, he will be over 30 years old. No wonder doctors are always hard to get married, it's always too late. Besides the training difficulty, medical career is still "dangerous" in our country. When reading papers, you'll find mainly two kinds of reports about doctors: one is some attending doctor has made his patient dead by mistake, the other is someone doctor was killed by his patient with misunderstanding. Neither of that the doctor had a happy ending. In order to make ourselves safe and to make our clinic activities legal, we spend lots of time in "communications". I have counted that when an old man first got hospitalized, his son would have 7 places to sign his name, the hospitalizing notice, communication records, the authorizing proof, the ID missing proof, and so on, and to make his father out of hospital, there would be more signatures waiting. No matter how violent and dangerous and annoying medical career is, it is a "great" occupation anyway, and maybe the greatest in some respects. Firstly, doctors will protect the people's health and life. There is nothing more precious than life and health. As there would always be time for one need doctor's help, even most of the people won't choose to be a doctor themselves, they will never reject a doctor-friend. Secondly, a competent doctor can bring people hope and dignity. When people suffered physical pain, they were metally ill at the same time, they would be very sad and fragile, and appropriate encouragement and comfort by their doctor will help them a lot even after the hospital discharge. And the flower of trust between patient and doctor sometimes can bear the fruit of love. I think that's why there were numerous stories about patients fell in love with their attending doctors. Whatever, a competent doctor lives long in people's heart, and earn the best respect of his patients. All in all, medical career is such a career that while it's challenging and dangerous, it is of great value at the same time. Although people have some misunderstandings about doctors, nowadays, I believe we will win the very respect of the whole society through continuous efforts on the help of the patients. We are still stand here as doctors because we all have an dream, that one day all the secret of illness can be deciphered, and there will no longer be "incurable diseases", as the poem sings: life will be beautiful as summer flowers, and death like autumn leaves.