keannu
VIP Member
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2010
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Korean
- Home Country
- South Korea
- Current Location
- South Korea
In this question, why can't 1 be the answer? "acknowledge" seems to be vague to me.
Q. Which is proper for the blank?
① acknowledge my medical errors
② participate in operations and care
One afternoon, a patient’s wife stopped me in the hallway of the clinic. I had just finished describing an operation to her and her husband, obtaining his consent and answering their questions. I wasn’t surprised that the patient’s wife was still worried. Despite her easy smile and occasional laugh, she had appeared awkward throughout the visit, her hands moving from her hair to her face to her pocketbook and back to her hair again.She opened her mouth to speak but stopped all of a sudden
when one of the residents, a doctor-in-training, passed by. Once the resident was out of earshot, she cleared her throat. “Please don’t bring any student doctors into the operating room,” she
said, looking toward where the resident was standing. “It’s not that I don’t like these young doctors. I just don’t want one practicing on my husband.”
I often hear that sort of request, but I’ve never developed an adequate response. A part of me understands those concerns. Although residents are talented and earnest, it’s true that they are still learning to operate. At the same time, I’m also fully aware that I am what I am because I was once allowed to _______________ That afternoon a comment about the training process or my residency experiences would not have directly addressed the concerns of my patient’s wife. Or, frankly, my own *disquietude. While my colleagues and I might have believed that our supervision of residents in the operating room ensured patient safety and quality of care, none of us really knew that for sure.
Q. Which is proper for the blank?
① acknowledge my medical errors
② participate in operations and care
One afternoon, a patient’s wife stopped me in the hallway of the clinic. I had just finished describing an operation to her and her husband, obtaining his consent and answering their questions. I wasn’t surprised that the patient’s wife was still worried. Despite her easy smile and occasional laugh, she had appeared awkward throughout the visit, her hands moving from her hair to her face to her pocketbook and back to her hair again.She opened her mouth to speak but stopped all of a sudden
when one of the residents, a doctor-in-training, passed by. Once the resident was out of earshot, she cleared her throat. “Please don’t bring any student doctors into the operating room,” she
said, looking toward where the resident was standing. “It’s not that I don’t like these young doctors. I just don’t want one practicing on my husband.”
I often hear that sort of request, but I’ve never developed an adequate response. A part of me understands those concerns. Although residents are talented and earnest, it’s true that they are still learning to operate. At the same time, I’m also fully aware that I am what I am because I was once allowed to _______________ That afternoon a comment about the training process or my residency experiences would not have directly addressed the concerns of my patient’s wife. Or, frankly, my own *disquietude. While my colleagues and I might have believed that our supervision of residents in the operating room ensured patient safety and quality of care, none of us really knew that for sure.
Sorry - very careless of me. 