Unit 3 A Crime of Compassion

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Unit 3


A Crime of Compassion

I


Teaching objectives

1.

Understanding the various aspects related to the usage of words.
2.

Cultivating a sense of appropriateness in style
3.

Learning methods of dealing with the body paragraphs of a writing.

II

Teaching time: six class periods
III

Teaching Procedures
Step 1

library work

1 the Phil Donahue show
: The Phil Donahue Show, also known as Donahue, is an
American television talk show that ran for 26 years on national television. Its run was
preceded
by
three
years
of
local
broadcast
in
Dayton,
Ohio,
and
it
was
broadcast
nationwide between 1967 and 1996.



2 code blue:
Hospital emergency codes are used in hospitals worldwide to alert staff
to
various
emergency
situations.
The
use
of
codes
is
intended
to
convey
essential
information quickly and with a minimum of misunderstanding to staff.



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Step

2

pre-reading questions
1 If you have ever witnessed the sufferings of a dying person, tell us the feelings that
the scene evoked from you.

2 Do you think doctors and nurses should do everything within their means to try to
save a terminally ill patient even when they know clearly all their efforts would mean
nothing more than prolonging his suffering?

3 General Reading
I. Determine which of the following best states the purpose of the writing.
A. To recount her horrifying experience of caring for a terminally ill patient.
B. To make an appeal for a terminally ill patient's right to die.
C. To demand that nurses be given the right to issue a

Key: B

Judge whether the following statements are true or false.
1 When Mac entered the hospital, he was apparently a normal person except for an
enduring cough.
2 Despite his worsening condition, Mac still had a strong wish to live.
3 The medical community is divided on whether a patient's life should be extended as
long as possible under all circumstances.
4 It can be inferred from the essay that doctors, not nurses, have the right to give a

5 In Maura's eyes, Huttmann was a murderer for not pushing the code blue button in
time.
Key:
1. T



2. F



3. T



4. T



5. F

Step

3

Key Points of the Text
1
self- righteous
adj:

having
a
certainty,
especially
an
unfounded
one,
that
one
is
totally correct or superior

2

2 meddle in:
interfere in
E.g. Young people today do not like their parents to meddle in their lives.
meddle with

—
touch or handle sth. without permission
E.g.
You
can
use
my
room
but
you're
not
supposed
to
meddle
with
my
stuffs,
especially my computer.

3 to play God:
to function as God, i.e. to decide when to terminate a person's life.
Christians believe that only God has the right to decide when a person's life should
end.
4
When
Mac
had
wasted
away
to
a
60-pound
skeleton
:
When
Mac
had
been
reduced to a 60-pound skeleton

5 waste away :
(of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and
more emaciated

E.g. She is dying of AIDS, visibly wasting away.

6 i.v. solutions:

and
patient for therapeutic purposes.

7 irrigate the big craters of bedsores:
The verb
water to land or crops to help growth.

8 suction the lung fluids that threatened to drown him:
drain the excessive lung
fluids that threaten his life
9 that seemed woven into the fabric of my uniform:
that seemed to have become an
element of the fabric of my uniform
10 weave sth. into :
include sth. as an integral part or element (of a fabric); include an
element in a story, an artistic work, etc.
E.g. Some golden threads are woven into the fabric.
Argumentative paragraphs are naturally woven into Huttmann's narration.

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11 to be liable for negligence:
to be held responsible for failing to perform my duty
12 be liable for :
to be responsible for by law, to be legally answerable to
13

be
liable
to
:

be
likely
to
do
or
to
be
something,
likely
to
experience
sth.
(unpleasant)
E.g. Once
you have contacted the credit card protection scheme,
you
are no longer
liable for any loss that might occur.
He is suffering from hypertension and thus is liable to fall if he gets up too suddenly.
The low- lying areas are liable to floods during the rainy season.

14 when no amount of pain medication stilled his moaning and agony:
when his
pain was so acute that no matter how much pain-relieving medication was used, his
suffering could not be eased
still
vt. & vi.
E.g. He clapped his hands to still the agitated audience.
When night fell, the village which was boisterous with tourists in the daytime stilled.

15 I wondered about a spiritual judge.:
I wondered if there was a spiritual judge (as
against
a
legal
judge),
who
would
be
supportive
of
my
decision
not
to
push
the
code blue button, thus to put an end to all this.
16 building character:
developing his personal qualities (so that he could face up to
the adversity better)
17 the blessed relief of coma:
Coma refers to a state of deep unconsciousness that
lasts for a prolonged period, caused especially by severe injury or illness. When in
a coma, the patient is not conscious of any pain. That's why Huttmann thinks it is a
blessed relief.

18 riddled me with guilt:
filled me with a strong sense of guilt
The verb riddle here means
undesirable
19 A clutch of panic banded my chest:
I was so seized by panic that I felt simply
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