VOA标准英语2012--Vietnamese-American Doctor Helps Rebuild Bodies, Lives
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(九月)
Vietnamese-American Doctor Helps Rebuild Bodies, Lives
To his patients at the Methodist Hospital of Houston, Doctor Tue Dinh is a miracle worker.
Barbara Martinez came to him for help after surgery to fix a hernia left her with a painful and dangerous hole in her abdomen 1.
"He could see the pain, I could see the compassion 2 in his face and he said, 'I can help you,'" she said.
She is also impressed with the doctor's modesty 3.
"I try to tell him 'thank you' and he just says he is doing his job, but… his heart is in it, not just a scalpel in his hand," she said.
Dr. Dinh says the challenge of plastic and reconstructive surgery often involves improvising 4 solutions to life-threatening conditions.
"Plastic surgery not only improves the quality of life of a patient, but sometimes it can save the patient's life," he said.
Dr. Dinh often operates on patients who have been disfigured or medically compromised by accidents or even by other medical procedures.
Today, Dr. Dinh is trying to fix a problem created by surgery at another hospital.
In this case, the patient's spinal 5 cord was left exposed when infected tissue was removed.
Dr. Dinh uses a tissue replacement 6 technique he has used many times to cover life-threatening openings in patients' chests
"We have a procedure to bring a muscle flap to cover the exposed heart and to reconstruct the chest wall, for example, and reconstruct the sternum, and that keeps the heart covered," he said.
Tue Dinh was born in Vietnam and came to the United States with his family in 1975. But since he left medical school he has returned to his birth country many times with his siblings 7, who are also doctors/plastic surgeons to help people there.
"I just have an emotional attachment 8, my brother and I and my sister, to go back to Vietnam and we try to go back practically every year," he said.
In one well-known case in Vietnam, Dr. Dinh helped this seven-year-old boy, Thien Nhan, who was mutilated by wild animals when he was a baby.
Dr. Dinh says restoring the boy's physical appearance helps him psychologically, as well.
In the near future, Dr. Dinh says, advances in the use of stem cells and other techniques may allow him to do even more for such patients.
“Hopefully, in the near future we can create something that is completely new from the lab and transfer and create. This is an exciting time to be a plastic surgeon," he said.
But for now, Dr. Dinh continues to innovate 9 with traditional techniques to help his grateful patients.
- How to know to there is ascarid inside abdomen?怎样知道肚子里面有蛔虫？
- He was anxious about an off-and-on pain the abdomen.他因时隐时现的腹痛而焦虑。
- He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
- Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。
- Industry and modesty are the chief factors of his success.勤奋和谦虚是他成功的主要因素。
- As conceit makes one lag behind,so modesty helps one make progress.骄傲使人落后，谦虚使人进步。
- I knew he was improvising, an old habit of his. 我知道他是在即兴发挥，这是他的老习惯。
- A few lecturers have been improvising to catch up. 部分讲师被临时抽调以救急。
- After three days in Japan,the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.在日本三天，就已经使脊椎骨变得富有弹性了。
- Your spinal column is made up of 24 movable vertebrae.你的脊柱由24个活动的脊椎骨构成。
- We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
- They put all the students through the replacement examination.他们让所有的学生参加分班考试。
- A triplet sleeps amongst its two siblings. 一个三胞胎睡在其两个同胞之间。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She has no way of tracking the donor or her half-siblings down. 她没办法找到那个捐精者或她的兄弟姐妹。 来自时文部分
- She has a great attachment to her sister.她十分依恋她的姐姐。
- She's on attachment to the Ministry of Defense.她现在隶属于国防部。