| 19A | 20B | 21C | 22B | 23C | 24C | 25B |
| 26A | 27D | 28D | 29A | 30D |
Mom: Your grandfather goes in on Monday. I sent you his card.
| CITY HOSPITAL · Patient Card |
|---|
| Building B, Floor 3, Room 12 |
| Doctor Chen · Monday 10:30 |
| Do not eat after midnight Sunday |
| Bring this card and a family member |
| Light food only after: rice, lettuce, soup |
Ken: I can take him. My class ends at nine, so I will be there by ten.
Mom: Good. Remember he cannot eat breakfast, so do not stop for brunch on the way.
Ken: Right. Should I bring anything else?
Mom: Just the card. He has everything else in his bag already.
媽媽：你爺爺星期一要住院。我把他的卡片傳給你了。
| 市立醫院 · 病人卡 |
|---|
| B 棟 3 樓 12 室 |
| 陳醫師 · 星期一 10:30 |
| 星期日午夜後請勿進食 |
| 請攜帶此卡並由家人陪同 |
| 術後僅限清淡飲食：飯、生菜、湯 |
肯：我可以帶他去。我的課九點結束，十點前會到。
媽媽：好。記得他不能吃早餐，所以路上不要停下來吃早午餐。
肯：好。還要帶別的東西嗎？
媽媽：只要那張卡。其他東西他包包裡都有了。
Please read this before you see the doctor.
You may bring one family member into the room. If you would rather speak alone, tell the nurse at the desk, and she will ask the other person to wait outside. Nobody will ask you why.
If you cannot come, please call before nine in the morning so that another patient can take your time. A missed hour is an hour nobody can use, and the doctor's office already has a long list.
看診前請先閱讀本說明。
你可以帶一位家人進入診間。如果你想單獨談，請告訴櫃檯護士，她會請另一位在外面等候。沒有人會問你原因。
若無法前來，請於早上九點前來電，好讓其他病人能使用你的時段。錯過的時段是沒有人能使用的時段，而診所已經排了很長的名單。
Dear Nurse Lin,
You will not remember me. I was the boy with the cut hand in Room 12 last August, the one who would not let anybody near him.
You did not tell me to be brave. You sat down, showed me the small silver tool, and said it would hurt for about six seconds. Then you counted them out loud with me. It was the first time in that hospital that somebody told me the truth about how bad it would be.
I am studying now to work in a hospital myself, and I look forward to it every day. I wanted you to know that a person can decide what to do with his life because of six seconds that somebody counted for him.
Thank you. Chang Wei
親愛的林護理師：
您不會記得我。我是去年八月 12 號房那個手被割傷的男孩，那個不讓任何人靠近的。
您沒有叫我要勇敢。您坐了下來，把那個銀色的小工具拿給我看，說它會痛大約六秒。然後您陪我把那六秒數出來。那是我在那家醫院裡，第一次有人告訴我真實的疼痛程度。
我現在正在念書，將來也要在醫院工作，我每天都很期待。我想讓您知道，一個人可能因為別人替他數的六秒，而決定自己這輩子要做什麼。
謝謝您。張偉
For a long time, a doctor was trained to ask one question: what is wrong with you? It is a good question, and it finds a broken bone quickly.
Some schools now teach a second one: what has happened to you? The first question looks for a part of the body. The second looks for a life. A sick child who cannot sleep may not need a drug; he may need a quiet house. Every human being carries more than one story.
This change is slow, because the second question takes longer and cannot be measured well. But doctors who ask it say something simple: people get better faster when somebody has heard the whole story, not only the part that shows on the skin.
長久以來，醫生被訓練問一個問題：你哪裡不舒服？這是個好問題，而且能很快找出骨折。
現在有些學校開始教第二個問題：你身上發生了什麼事？第一個問題找的是身體的某個部位，第二個問題找的是一段人生。一個生病、睡不著的孩子也許不需要藥，他需要的是一個安靜的家。每一個人身上都不只一個故事。
這個改變很慢，因為第二個問題花的時間更長，也很難被衡量。但會問這個問題的醫生說了一件很簡單的事：當有人聽完了整個故事，而不只是皮膚上看得見的那部分，人會好得更快。