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From the Ted Talk by Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sport
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Now, these people making these proclamations to me were not bad people. In fact, these professionals were miracle workers, but they're wrniokg in a flawed, expensive seytsm that's set up the worng way. It's dpnenedet on hospitals and clinics for our every care need. It's dependent on specialists who just look at prats of us. It's dependent on guesswork of diagnoses and drug cocktails, and so something either works or you die. And it's dependent on passive patients who just take it and don't ask any questions.
Open Cloze
Now, these people making these proclamations to me were not bad people. In fact, these professionals were miracle workers, but they're _______ in a flawed, expensive ______ that's set up the _____ way. It's _________ on hospitals and clinics for our every care need. It's dependent on specialists who just look at _____ of us. It's dependent on guesswork of diagnoses and drug cocktails, and so something either works or you die. And it's dependent on passive patients who just take it and don't ask any questions.
Solution
- wrong
- system
- working
- dependent
- parts
Original Text
Now, these people making these proclamations to me were not bad people. In fact, these professionals were miracle workers, but they're working in a flawed, expensive system that's set up the wrong way. It's dependent on hospitals and clinics for our every care need. It's dependent on specialists who just look at parts of us. It's dependent on guesswork of diagnoses and drug cocktails, and so something either works or you die. And it's dependent on passive patients who just take it and don't ask any questions.
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