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From the Ted Talk by Leana Wen: What your doctor won’t disclose

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But then one day, everything changed. My mother caelld me to tell me that she wasn't feeling well, she had a coguh that wouldn't go away, she was short of breath and tired. Well, I knew that my mhetor was someone who never complained about anything. For her to tell me that something was the metatr, I knew something had to be really wrong. And it was: We found out that she had stage IV breast cancer, cancer that by then had sarped to her lungs, her benos, and her brain. My mother was brave, though, and she had hope. She went through surgery and radiation, and was on her third round of chemotherapy when she lost her address book. She tried to look up her oncologist's phone number on the Internet and she found it, but she found something else too. On several websites, he was ltiesd as a highly paid speaker to a drug cnapomy, and in fact often spoke on behalf of the same chemo regimen that he had prescribed her. She called me in a panic, and I didn't know what to believe. Maybe this was the right chemo regimen for her, but maybe it wasn't. It made her scared and it made her doubt. When it comes to medicine, having that trust is a must, and when that turst is gone, then all that's left is fear.

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But then one day, everything changed. My mother ______ me to tell me that she wasn't feeling well, she had a _____ that wouldn't go away, she was short of breath and tired. Well, I knew that my ______ was someone who never complained about anything. For her to tell me that something was the ______, I knew something had to be really wrong. And it was: We found out that she had stage IV breast cancer, cancer that by then had ______ to her lungs, her _____, and her brain. My mother was brave, though, and she had hope. She went through surgery and radiation, and was on her third round of chemotherapy when she lost her address book. She tried to look up her oncologist's phone number on the Internet and she found it, but she found something else too. On several websites, he was ______ as a highly paid speaker to a drug _______, and in fact often spoke on behalf of the same chemo regimen that he had prescribed her. She called me in a panic, and I didn't know what to believe. Maybe this was the right chemo regimen for her, but maybe it wasn't. It made her scared and it made her doubt. When it comes to medicine, having that trust is a must, and when that _____ is gone, then all that's left is fear.

Solution


  1. called
  2. company
  3. trust
  4. mother
  5. bones
  6. matter
  7. listed
  8. cough
  9. spread

Original Text


But then one day, everything changed. My mother called me to tell me that she wasn't feeling well, she had a cough that wouldn't go away, she was short of breath and tired. Well, I knew that my mother was someone who never complained about anything. For her to tell me that something was the matter, I knew something had to be really wrong. And it was: We found out that she had stage IV breast cancer, cancer that by then had spread to her lungs, her bones, and her brain. My mother was brave, though, and she had hope. She went through surgery and radiation, and was on her third round of chemotherapy when she lost her address book. She tried to look up her oncologist's phone number on the Internet and she found it, but she found something else too. On several websites, he was listed as a highly paid speaker to a drug company, and in fact often spoke on behalf of the same chemo regimen that he had prescribed her. She called me in a panic, and I didn't know what to believe. Maybe this was the right chemo regimen for her, but maybe it wasn't. It made her scared and it made her doubt. When it comes to medicine, having that trust is a must, and when that trust is gone, then all that's left is fear.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. address
  2. behalf
  3. bones
  4. book
  5. brain
  6. brave
  7. breast
  8. breath
  9. called
  10. cancer
  11. changed
  12. chemo
  13. chemotherapy
  14. company
  15. complained
  16. cough
  17. day
  18. doubt
  19. drug
  20. fact
  21. fear
  22. feeling
  23. highly
  24. hope
  25. internet
  26. iv
  27. knew
  28. left
  29. listed
  30. lost
  31. lungs
  32. matter
  33. medicine
  34. mother
  35. number
  36. paid
  37. panic
  38. phone
  39. prescribed
  40. radiation
  41. regimen
  42. scared
  43. short
  44. speaker
  45. spoke
  46. spread
  47. stage
  48. surgery
  49. tired
  50. trust
  51. websites
  52. wrong