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2021年1月21日发(作者：耐受力)
关于诚实的英语小故事


【篇一：关于诚实的英语小故事】

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祝好
!

jerald wayne strickland

interim senior vice president of academic affairs, university of
houston

curator ream, chancellor george, provost cope, dean davis,
distinguished faculty, graduates, friends and family members, i
am so pleased to be with you on this special occasion.

thank you dean davis for the wonderful introduction, and i
bring warm wishes from my university to the 2005 graduates,
their families and guests, and to the faculty and administration
of the college of optometry. i am especially pleased to join
university of missouri system curator, dr. anne ream, dean
larry davis and the faculty to celebrate this most important
event in the life of an optometrist, the sudden and abrupt
change from professional student to doctor.

graduates, it is a very high order privilege and distinct honor
for me to address you today, and i am humbled by your
collective accomplishments as students, as clinicians and as
citizens.

the 28 women and 16 men who are members of the class of
2005 come from thirteen (13) states. you joined this fine
university and college four years ago as eager students with
strong academic backgrounds and collegial spirits. i checked
with the dean and a few members of your class earlier today
and i am happy to report that your spirits have not been
broken, nor your intellectual curiosity diminished.

one could rate the approximately 1,200 members of the
optometry class of 2005 across this nation as the best we have
graduated, indeed with the many changes in our practicing
profession and consequently in the preparatory curriculum
one can feel quite safe in making such a statement at this and,
hopefully, subsequent commencements.

in addition to these accolades, one should realize that only
1/100th of 1 percent of the world’s population achieves the
doctoral level of education. therefore, from a global
perspective, this is truly a remarkable achievement.

i read recently that brevity, humor and celebrity are important
in graduation speeches. if i can do one out of three, i feel i
have accomplished my goal.

i want to tell you a story and share a simple message with you.

mrs. brown was a longtime patient of mine at the university
eye institute. we had worked through systemic and eye
diseases and related conditions over about 8 years. she was a
regular, annual patient who felt comfortable about calling me
when she had questions and sharing with me issues related to
her healthcare needs. we had dealt with open angle glaucoma,
cataract surgery, diabetes, hypertension and frequent changes
in her refractive error.

about 4 years ago i received one of those regular phone calls
but this time there was sadness in her voice. remember, i was
the one person of only a few with whom she shared her health
and vision problems and sometimes personal problems. i was
“her eye doctor” and we had long ago passed the cross
cultural communication barrier.

as we talked, mrs. brown began to cry as she shared the fact
that her health insurance and subsequent medicare changes
would no longer pay for her visits nor the diagnostic and
therapeutic services that i prescribed. although commonplace
today, these sudden and often traumatic changes in medical
service providers disregard the importance of trust,
understanding and respect developed over time between
patient and doctor. this scenario happens only too often where
this important relationship between doctor and patient is
strained and often severed due to impersonal and external
factors.

the story of mrs. brown has been repeated tens of thousands
of times in optometry, medicine, dentistry, osteopathy,
podiatry, pharmacy, etc. for many, the doctor-patient
relationship has been replaced with impersonal third party
shepherding of patients from provider to provider. many of you
have experienced this disruption in your healthcare.

mrs. brown did still stay in touch with me, about once every
year, with a phone call to me or my staff bringing us up-to-date
on her health and vision problems. she had many doctors over
those years. the reason i tell you this story is to demonstrate
and emphasize to you that trust, understanding and respect
are powerful magnets for doctors and their patients. a breach
of these will likely repel. good doctor- patient relationships are
built on honesty and integrity and withstand external
pressures, influences and even misunderstandings. a trusting
doctor-patient relationship is not easily disturbed, and we see
in the example of my patient, mrs. brown, it can prevail.

i was sure when mrs. brown did have a choice to return to me
as her eye doctor, she would bring her family and friends.

well, it happened! about 2 years ago, during our annual phone
call, she seemed excited and most cheerful
—“doctor, i have
made an appointment to see you next month, the insurance
tides have turned.”

this brings to mind a truism from the american frontier:
“honesty and integrity are not something you should flirt
with
—
you should be mar
ried to them.”

honesty, trust, compassion, fairness, patience, understanding,
respect, dignity, confidentiality, good citizenship, charity and
beneficence are most worthy traits for all citizens, but they are
mandatory traits for those of us who occupy positions of high
responsibility for human and health services. this is not a case
where 80% or even 90% of those attributes is acceptable
—it’s
100%
—
much like take-offs and landings and action potentials,
it’s all or none.

most persons have a tincture of each of these traits, but for the
healthcare provider it is an imperative to have a large
therapeutic and preventive dose.

if one samples patients regarding the traits of the “best
doctors” they know or have experienced, each of the
previously noted virtues can be found. patients want and
expect their doctors to be professionally virtuous and to be
model citizens.

you will soon take the “optometric oath” which allows you to
state before family, friends, colleagues and your faculty, your
ethical and professional convictions.

in the 4th century b.c., the greek physician hippocrates, the
“father of medicine,” laid out
common sense ethical principles
which are known to all of us in the health professions. they
deal with respect, fairness, justice, confidentiality, honesty and
quality of care. “the hippocratic oath.”

sound familiar? yes, and after 17 centuries.

there is one somewhat lesser known component of the
hippocratic oath; it is “respect for your teachers.” simply
stated, hippocrates wrote and pledged: “to hold him (or now
her) who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to
live my life in partnership with
him (her).”

for your distinguished and patient faculty members who have
played roles as teacher, mentor and counselor in your career,
continue this relationship and trust and respect them and the
institution which has embraced you for four years.

another
truism from the american frontier: “when you get to
where you are goin’, the first thing to do is take care of the
horse you rode in on.”

there are few things in higher education that reach the level of
pride and satisfaction for a faculty member than to s
hare one’s
knowledge, skill and experience with others who will go forth
and practice (and teach others).

back to mrs. brown. she taught me important lessons in
doctor-patient relations
—
ones that work, ones, which i hope
you will embrace, and practice--- honesty, integrity,
understanding, respect and trust.

congratulations and best wishes and stay the course and lead
the profession of optometry to new heights, and remember
mrs. brown, every patient can be a mrs. brown.

finally, you are now entering the ranks of the optometric
profession with our high expectation that you will continue the
leadership traditions of irvin borish, anne ream, jack bennett,
larry davis, your distinguished faculty, and your state and
national optometric leaders.

i challenge each of you to distinguish yourself in all aspects of
the profession. i promise you the result will indeed be fulfilling
and rewarding. “bite off more than you can chew and chew it!”