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Medical Story Show

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Does the old boyfriend look like your husband?

你前男友长得像你丈夫吗

Yeah...

有点

Then just have the kid.

那就把孩子生下来吧

He'll never know.

他不会知道的

The most successful marriages are based on lies.

成功的婚姻是建立在谎言之上的

You're off to a great start.

你有了一个很好的开始

Well, you look cheery.

你们看上去很高兴

What's going on?

怎么了

The Hartig and ChenLupino babies.

哈蒂格和陈·卢皮诺家的孩子

Their kidneys are shutting down.

他们的肾脏正逐渐停止工作

And the urine tests show no casts.

尿液检查没发现管型尿

Which means the antibiotics are causing the kidney failure.

说明是抗生素造成的肾衰竭

You're the nephrologist.

你是肾病专家

Which one did it? We'll take 'em off that one.

哪种抗生素引起的 我们停用它

Don't tell me both Vancomycin and Aztreonam can...

不要告诉我万古霉素和氨曲南都会...

They both can cause this.

他们都会造成肾衰竭

There's no way to know which one it is. No test.

没办法知道到底是哪种造成的

We can't take them off the antibiotics.

我们不能停用抗生素

They'll die of the infection.

他们会死于传染病的

If we leave them on both the antibiotics

如果我们同时用两种抗生素

they'll die of kidney failure.

他们会死于肾衰竭

So, we take our best guess, then.

所以 我们只有尽力去猜测

Which drug's causing the kidney failure?

哪种药引起了肾脏衰竭

It's like I said: it's always MRSA in hospitals.

抗甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌是医院里最常见的感染

Take 'em off Aztreonam.

停用氨曲南

I still think it's the pseudomonas.

我仍觉得是绿脓杆菌

I vote to take them off the Vancomycin.

我支持停用万古霉素

There's no point in guessing.

猜测是没有用的

Take one kid off Vancomycin and the other off Aztreonam.

一个孩子停用万古霉素 另一个停用氨曲南

They have the same disease

他们得同样的病

you want to give them different treatment?

你却要给他们用不同的治疗吗

What the hell are you doing?

你到底在干什么

Therapeutic trial to find the cause of the infection.

通过治疗性实验来发现病因

That's wrong.

这是不对的

We have four sick kids, at least.

至少有四个孩子生病

Who knows how many more haven't started showing symptoms yet?

谁知道到底有多少个还没出现症状的

We have a duty to these two!

我们要对这两个孩子负责任

If these two have different

如果两个孩子有不同反应

reactions we know how to save the rest.

我们就知道怎么去救别的孩子

So you're condemning one

所以你是随机地让

of these kids to die based on random chance.

其中的一个孩子去死喽

I guess I am.

大概是吧

So, you're going to flip a coin?

所以 你是要掷硬币吗

——From《House M.D》

重点词汇（Vocabulary）

1.cheery [ˈtʃɪri] adj. 愉快的，活泼的2.nephrologist [ne’krɑlədʒɪst] n. 肾病学家3.die of 因……死，死于4.pseudomonas [ˌpsjʊdo‘monæs] n. 假单胞菌5.therapeutic [,θerə’pjuːtɪk] adj. 治疗的，有疗效的6.therapeutic trial 治疗试验7.condemning [kənˈdemɪŋ] n. 谴责；处刑;v. 谴责8.flip a coin 抛钱币（决定）

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