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From the Ted Talk by Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch

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We marry, for example, with great pomp and ceremony and expense to signal our departure from a life of sldotuie and misery and loneliness to one of etanrel bliss. I'm not sure why you're laughing. That was the original intent, was it not? We signal transitions of power with rituals. We signal the passage of a life with rituals. Rituals are terribly important. They're all about transformation. Well I would submit to you that the ritual of one individual coming to another and telling them things that they would not tell their pecreahr or rbbai, and then, idcerlibny on top of that, disrobing and allowing touch — I would simubt to you that that is a ritual of exceeding importance. And if you shortchange that rautil by not undressing the patient, by listening with your stethoscope on top of the nwgtghoin, by not doing a complete exam, you have bypassed on the opportunity to seal the patient-physician relationship.

Open Cloze


We marry, for example, with great pomp and ceremony and expense to signal our departure from a life of ________ and misery and loneliness to one of _______ bliss. I'm not sure why you're laughing. That was the original intent, was it not? We signal transitions of power with rituals. We signal the passage of a life with rituals. Rituals are terribly important. They're all about transformation. Well I would submit to you that the ritual of one individual coming to another and telling them things that they would not tell their ________ or _____, and then, __________ on top of that, disrobing and allowing touch — I would ______ to you that that is a ritual of exceeding importance. And if you shortchange that ______ by not undressing the patient, by listening with your stethoscope on top of the _________, by not doing a complete exam, you have bypassed on the opportunity to seal the patient-physician relationship.

Solution


  1. solitude
  2. preacher
  3. incredibly
  4. ritual
  5. rabbi
  6. eternal
  7. submit
  8. nightgown

Original Text


We marry, for example, with great pomp and ceremony and expense to signal our departure from a life of solitude and misery and loneliness to one of eternal bliss. I'm not sure why you're laughing. That was the original intent, was it not? We signal transitions of power with rituals. We signal the passage of a life with rituals. Rituals are terribly important. They're all about transformation. Well I would submit to you that the ritual of one individual coming to another and telling them things that they would not tell their preacher or rabbi, and then, incredibly on top of that, disrobing and allowing touch — I would submit to you that that is a ritual of exceeding importance. And if you shortchange that ritual by not undressing the patient, by listening with your stethoscope on top of the nightgown, by not doing a complete exam, you have bypassed on the opportunity to seal the patient-physician relationship.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. allowing
  2. bliss
  3. bypassed
  4. ceremony
  5. coming
  6. complete
  7. departure
  8. disrobing
  9. eternal
  10. exam
  11. exceeding
  12. expense
  13. great
  14. importance
  15. important
  16. incredibly
  17. individual
  18. intent
  19. laughing
  20. life
  21. listening
  22. loneliness
  23. marry
  24. misery
  25. nightgown
  26. opportunity
  27. original
  28. passage
  29. patient
  30. pomp
  31. power
  32. preacher
  33. rabbi
  34. relationship
  35. ritual
  36. rituals
  37. seal
  38. shortchange
  39. signal
  40. solitude
  41. stethoscope
  42. submit
  43. telling
  44. terribly
  45. top
  46. touch
  47. transformation
  48. transitions
  49. undressing