From the Ted Talk by Ivan Oransky: Are we over-medicalized?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Patients come to them, they want to do something. We're aamricnes, we can't just stand there, we have to do something. And so they want a drug. They want a treatment. They want to be told, this is what you have and this is how you terat it. If the dtcoor doesn't give you that, you go somewhere else. That's not very good for doctors' business. Or even worse, if you are doeaingsd with something eventually, and the doctor didn't order that test, you get sued.
We have pharmaceutical companies that are constantly trying to expand the indications, expand the number of people who are eligible for a given temrntaet, because that obviously helps their bottom line. We have advocacy groups, like the one that's come up with pre-vivor, who want to make more and more people feel they are at risk, or might have a condition, so that they can raise more funds and raise vtlibiiisy, et cetera.
Open Cloze
Patients come to them, they want to do something. We're _________, we can't just stand there, we have to do something. And so they want a drug. They want a treatment. They want to be told, this is what you have and this is how you _____ it. If the ______ doesn't give you that, you go somewhere else. That's not very good for doctors' business. Or even worse, if you are _________ with something eventually, and the doctor didn't order that test, you get sued.
We have pharmaceutical companies that are constantly trying to expand the indications, expand the number of people who are eligible for a given _________, because that obviously helps their bottom line. We have advocacy groups, like the one that's come up with pre-vivor, who want to make more and more people feel they are at risk, or might have a condition, so that they can raise more funds and raise __________, et cetera.
Solution
treatment
diagnosed
doctor
treat
visibility
americans
Original Text
Patients come to them, they want to do something. We're Americans, we can't just stand there, we have to do something. And so they want a drug. They want a treatment. They want to be told, this is what you have and this is how you treat it. If the doctor doesn't give you that, you go somewhere else. That's not very good for doctors' business. Or even worse, if you are diagnosed with something eventually, and the doctor didn't order that test, you get sued.
We have pharmaceutical companies that are constantly trying to expand the indications, expand the number of people who are eligible for a given treatment, because that obviously helps their bottom line. We have advocacy groups, like the one that's come up with pre-vivor, who want to make more and more people feel they are at risk, or might have a condition, so that they can raise more funds and raise visibility, et cetera.