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A 80-year old man from Cincinnati in America is making legal history by suing doctors who saved his wife. Edward Winter has witn
A 80-year old man from Cincinnati in America is making legal history by suing doctors who saved his wife. Edward Winter has witn
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A 80-year old man from Cincinnati in America is making legal history by suing doctors who saved his wife. Edward Winter has witnessed his wife’ s death from a 【21】______ attack. The doctors had tried to restart her heart with an electric 【22】______ with remarkable success, but leaving her brain 【23】______ . Her death was a long and 【24】______ experience, which he did not want to go through himself. After she died he asked his doctor 【25】______ to save him in 【26】______ circumstances, but instead to let him die 【27】______ .
While out visiting in May 1988, Mr. Winter 【28】______ the heart attack, which he was treated, and was rushed to St Franc’ is hospital in Cincinnati. The doctor who 【29】______ him wrote down on his chart that he was not to be 【30】______ but the duty nurse was not informed of Mr. Winter’s 【31】______ . The nurse took the usual 【32】______ action and tried to revive him with an electric shock. His life was saved 【33】______ the treatment was not completely successful. Since then he 【34】______ stay in a nursing home, partially 【35】______ and barely able to speak without weeping. Though there is 【36】______ hope of improvement in his condition, doctors say he could 【37】______ many more years. The hospital 【38】______ his story, arguing that the injury suffered by Mr. Winter is the 【39】______ of an act of God and they 【40】______ him over $ 60,000 for saving his life.
【39】
选项
A、subsequence
B、influence
C、punishment
D、consequence
答案
D
解析
联系上下文可以推断出,这句话是医院方面在试图辩解造成Mr. Winter脑损伤这一后果另有原因,此外文章接近尾声,是在一件事情发生后对此事的分析说明,因此答案为D项consequence,意思是“结果、后果”。
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