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From the Ted Talk by Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And I wanted to read you this one closing paagsse about one patient. "I raecll one patient who was at that pniot no more than a skeleton encased in shrinking skin, unable to spaek, his mouth crusted with candida that was resistant to the usual medications. When he saw me on what turned out to be his last hours on this earth, his hands moved as if in slow motion. And as I wondered what he was up to, his stick fingers made their way up to his pajama shirt, fumbling with his bttouns. I realized that he was wanting to expose his wicker-basket chest to me. It was an offering, an invitation. I did not dcinele.
Open Cloze
And I wanted to read you this one closing _______ about one patient. "I ______ one patient who was at that _____ no more than a skeleton encased in shrinking skin, unable to _____, his mouth crusted with candida that was resistant to the usual medications. When he saw me on what turned out to be his last hours on this earth, his hands moved as if in slow motion. And as I wondered what he was up to, his stick fingers made their way up to his pajama shirt, fumbling with his _______. I realized that he was wanting to expose his wicker-basket chest to me. It was an offering, an invitation. I did not _______.
Solution
- recall
- point
- speak
- decline
- passage
- buttons
Original Text
And I wanted to read you this one closing passage about one patient. "I recall one patient who was at that point no more than a skeleton encased in shrinking skin, unable to speak, his mouth crusted with candida that was resistant to the usual medications. When he saw me on what turned out to be his last hours on this earth, his hands moved as if in slow motion. And as I wondered what he was up to, his stick fingers made their way up to his pajama shirt, fumbling with his buttons. I realized that he was wanting to expose his wicker-basket chest to me. It was an offering, an invitation. I did not decline.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
conan doyle |
4 |
subsequent care |
3 |
emergency room |
2 |
cat scan |
2 |
blood clots |
2 |
health care |
2 |
joseph bell |
2 |
inverleith row |
2 |
leopold auenbrugger |
2 |
barber surgeon |
2 |
luke fildes |
2 |
real patient |
2 |
medical care |
2 |
breast cancer |
2 |
cancer center |
2 |
private oncologist |
2 |
physical exam |
2 |
Important Words
- buttons
- candida
- chest
- closing
- crusted
- decline
- earth
- encased
- expose
- fingers
- fumbling
- hands
- hours
- invitation
- medications
- motion
- mouth
- moved
- offering
- pajama
- passage
- patient
- point
- read
- realized
- recall
- resistant
- shirt
- shrinking
- skeleton
- skin
- slow
- speak
- stick
- turned
- unable
- usual
- wanted
- wanting
- wondered