Today we can do everything with apps: pay bills, order food and shop for anything. Mobile technology means we can hold the world in our hands. However, when it comes to technology and healthcare, we should look at two sides.
Let’s start with the ways to get health care. With telemedicine (远程医疗), a patient (病人) can see the doctor online and get instructions without leaving home. Moreover, there are many patient websites. That means you can easily set a date with doctors and read lab results.
A whole new age of medical (医疗的) care seems to come in the future. But every coin has two sides. What might be on the other side of techno-healthcare?
Firstly, a usual visit to a doctor begins with a receptionist (接待员), who can see and tell how a patient is doing. This may help improve the treatment effect (治疗效果). However, a patient website seems not to have such intuition.
Next, patients share the details of their life with trusty people, but it takes time to build trust. This is certainly true in health care. The human touch should be valued (重视) more and is unlikely to be there over the smartphone.
Lastly, test results can be difficult to understand. When patients see a flagged (有警示标记的) result with no explanation (解释) on the website, there’s room for all kinds of stories to form in their minds and also great worry.
So how can medicine change and deal more successfully with the new technology age? Very talented companies are working on it. There are medical machines that can be used at home to send necessary signs and heart sounds through telemedicine. It seems very possible that some companies will find a way to explain test results.
But it will not offer the warmth of human touch. Patients often need someone to listen to and care about—their journey story, which will never be realized through a human-less technology. Technology should be a tool, but it’s unwise to depend on it totally.
33. According to the passage, how does technology help health care?
A.It helps doctors to voice their needs on the websites. |
B.It offers the patient an easy way to get instructions. |
C.It improves relations between doctors and patients. |
D.It helps hospital build a stronger medical team. |
34. The word “
intuition” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.
A.an ability to understand | B.an interesting experience |
C.the possibility to win | D.a right decision |
35. What do you know about techno-healthcare from the passage?
A.Patient websites need trust from doctors. |
B.Some talented companies can give medical treatment. |
C.Flagged results may cause worry for patients. |
D.Medical machines collect patients’ stories. |
36. The writer probably agrees that ________.
A.technology can deal with unexpected effects |
B.patients like telemedicine more than usual health care |
C.patients won’t get used to the new technology age |
D.techno-healthcare should value humanity more |