【推荐1】The Doctor Is Out

It’s a Friday morning and Dr. O’Connell is making his rounds. He might be more ________ inside the doctor’s office, but that’s not where his ________ are. He spends his days walking around where the ________ live—in parks, on streets, and under bridges.

More than 550,000 Americans are homeless, and many have ________ problems but no access to medical care. As one of a handful of physicians making house calls to the homeless, Dr. O’Connell ________ about 20 regular patients. He knows where most of them sleep and whom to ask if they are missing. If patients are too ________ to be on the streets, he finds them a treatment bed at the local ________. From stitches (缝线) for an arm to surgery for the soul, O’Connell offers to do ________.

“I’m a doctor. What I can do is just to ________ their suffering. But I gain a lot in the process.” O’Connell said. “________,.I could not find a more ________ population.”

“This man is unbelievable!” one of his patients remarked. “He’s like Jesus,” another ________.       .

“It needs ________,” O’Connell said. “When seeing somebody outside, I get them a coffee and ________ with them. Sometimes it took six months of offering a coffee ________ they would start to talk to me. ________ once they engage, they’ll come to me anytime because they ________ me.”

When asked about how his life might have ________ had he become a highly paid doctor, O’Connell said, “I never think about it anymore.”

Some things are more ________ than money. Just ask the man who gets everything from patients who have nothing ________ to give.

【推荐2】Early that day, I was so busy caring for our patient’s procedure that needed to be wrapped up. As my day nearly_____________, I was excited to meet my playfellows and_______with them. I was already outside our special area unit in the hospital when a woman suddenly came to me, holding a doctor’s_______with my name on it. My enthusiasm fell___________. But, instead of being cheeky, like others would probably do showing_______or impatience, I showed her a heartfelt smile and_______what was written in the prescription, only to find out it wasn’t hers but her husband’s, and my name on it_______the doctor wanted me to give the proper instruction on how to use the bowel (肠) preparation needed for her husband, who was_______for the examination the following day. I met her husband, who was very ___________and a good listener. We connected instantly with each other,________jokes.

The next time we met was during his colonoscopy (结肠镜检查)________and I assisted him in filling out the papers________by their insurance company. Given final________, they left the hospital. At noon, I was alone cleaning the________when suddenly I heard a knock on the glass door, thinking it might somebody who would like to____________of our services. I casually looked up and I was________because my visitors were the patient and his wife again! I opened the door and asked if they needed more________or perhaps forgot something. To my surprise they gave me a packed________and a bottle of pineapple juice!

Life has many facets. Its bits and pieces________you even in your busy days. It could end up with a________or a free lunch. It’s just a matter of thinking from a different angle.

【推荐1】What do you do on Christmas when your family is far away? My husband and I didn’t have any _______ nearby, so the holidays always made me feel a little _______. We had friends who weren’t going to see their families either. So why not hold a _______ and create a new tradition?

My husband loved the _______. Hesitantly, we invited friends. Two, three…_______ we had a party of eight people. We wondered _______ we’d be able to fit everyone in our tiny dining room. We were so _______ that we hadn’t thought of that at first.

“Who cares?” my husband said. “That’ll be part of the memory.”

Christmas quickly arrived. We got busy _______, decorating and before long we were no longer _______ to be happy about the holidays. We actually were happy. In our excitement we had prepared a ________ feast compared to our normal material dinner. Then we waited for our guests to arrive, hoping they would come ________! However, it was already ten minutes after their ________ arrival time and no one had ________.

As the first guest arrived, we let out a huge sigh of ________. She wasn’t even ________, as she had planned to fly home. Soon our small apartment became ________ with people. Friends introduced themselves to each other. Laughter and love filled our home. Thankfully everyone came. The only one ________ with the arrangement was our cat.

During the dinner, we ________ our favorite Christmas memories and felt how ________ the memories were in our lives. A Christmas that I had been ________ about had become a day to bond, break bread and share experiences.

In my early childhood, my parents and teachers taught me to be persistent (执着) in every task I devoted myself to. I was _____1_____ that persistence is the only way towards success. But a small incident made me change my mind.

One day my two-­year-­old son, _______2____ at a dozen of “stood” color marker­pens, cheered excitedly, “Mummy, look! I did it.” Afterwards, he collected some ball­pens, ____3______ to do the same. Hard though he tried, the ball­pens just lay ______4_____. He turned to me for help. Noticing they had either sharp or round ends, I said ____5_____, “Mummy can’t help you.” To my ____6_____, he wouldn’t listen and continued trying. I was struck by his persistence.

My son’s behaviour reminded me of George who was always _____7____in his work and rarely talked to anyone. To him, _____8____, there was no such thing called weekends or holidays. Our boss praised _____9_____ about him and _____10_____us to look up to him as a role model.

One day I met George. “Gonna work late again tonight？”

“Probably can't leave till midnight,” he said.

“How many hours have you put in here each week, eighty or ninety?”

“____11______.”

“Don’t you have time to be with your family at all?”

He shook his head slowly and ____12______ a sigh. “It’s not what I wanted. But I have worked on it for so long. It’s much too ____13_______ to even think about letting go.”

A year later I resigned. The _____14____ thing I heard about him was that his wife divorced him. Since then I’ve never seen him. But occasionally his aged ____15______ would come to my mind.

Until that day, _____16_____ knowing why the ball­pens couldn’t stand up, the two­year­old had ____17_____the impossibility after many failures. He put aside all the ball­pens and kept only those water markers for his “game”. _____18____, he already learned to let go of his previous ______19_____ attempts.

In our daily life, many headaches can be avoided if we know how to _____20____ them and then let go of them immediately.

【推荐3】It was March 2019. When Sara Cook got a _________ telling her that someone had paid most of her medical debts, she thought it was not _________. “It seemed like one of those e-mails you get that say you have a long-lost _________ and you just inherited (继承) two million dollars,” Cook says._________, she called the number listed on the letter. What she learned was that this was not a _________ . It was 100 percent real.

A nonprofit called RIP Medical Debt had _________ paid $5,000 toward her bills. The organization didn’t _________ all her debts from several back surgeries, but the former nurse was still _________ by the gesture. “I felt really _________,” she says, “knowing that complete strangers just did that out of the __________ of their hearts.”

Antico and Jerry, members of RIP, do have good hearts. They’re also former collection agents who have seen how health-related debt has __________ lives. Antico says. “I never thought about all the hardship of the people who couldn’t pay before. Now I __________ to find the people who need help.”

However, it’s not necessary for you to contact RIP for any __________. Antico says they used to let people reach out to them, __________ it was found that they weren’t able to help __________ who applied. Now, RIP researches those in need of help. For the people who do __________, RIP’s help is life-changing.

“After their letter, I realized that my life really won’t be __________,” says Cook,“ I may never be able to work as a __________ again, but I can sit at the school __________and help kids read or something else to help people. When people do something out of the kindness of their hearts, sometimes they may __________, ‘Does it really make a difference?’ I want people to know that this HAS positive impact.”