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One of the things that's really interesting that hospitals are wrestling with now is how to talk about superbugs.
医院正在努力解决的一件非常有趣的事是如何谈论超级细菌
And the reason for this is that patients are fearful every time they hear that there is a superbug inside of their local hospital.
之所以这样 是因为当病人听说本地医院里出现超级细菌的时候 总会忧心忡忡
But the irony here is that many of the best hospitals see the most superbugs.
但讽刺的是 很多最优秀的医院里往往有最多的超级细菌
They have the most sophisticated diagnostic techniques.
他们有最成熟的诊断技术
They have the most powerful antibiotics.
有最强效的抗生素
And they often care for the sickest patients.
通常收治最病重的病人
They also have the experts who know how to treat these.
他们还有知道该如何治疗这些疑难杂症的专家
And so a controversial ethical issue right now is how much disclosure should hospitals have talking about the superbugs that they find within their walls.
那现在一个比较有争议的伦理问题是 医院该对在本院内发现的超级细菌公开多少信息
Patient advocates say that this is like a restaurant having an outbreak of food poisoning and that we have an obligation to be transparent in what we're finding.
病人拥护者认为 这就像是一家餐馆爆发了食物中毒事件 我们有义务尽量做到公开透明
Many experts disagree with that because just because there is a superbug inside of a hospital doesn't mean that it infected anyone.
很多专家不同意这一观点 因为医院内发现超级细菌并不意味着它就能传染给任何人
It doesn't mean it was spread around.
并不说明它会扩散开来
And in fact, the infection may have been cured very easily.
事实上 这种感染可能会轻易治愈
So what we're trying to figure out now is how best do we talk about these things.
所以我们现在想知道的是 该怎么谈论这些事情才是最好
Sometimes patients call people from the Department of Health and say, does a hospital or a nursing facility have superbugs.
有时候 病人会打电话给卫生部的人 问医院或护理机构是否有超级细菌？
Is it infested? Can I send my mother there?
它会大范围传染吗？我能把我妈妈送到那里吗？
And we wrestle with how much to tell patients because, if the best hospitals have the most superbugs, what do we say?
我们在纠结该告诉病人多少信息 因为如果最好的医院里超级细菌却最多 我们该怎么说呢？
And I'm all for transparency, but I want to make sure that we couple that with education.
我是支持透明的 但我希望与此同时也要普及教育知识
What I want patients to understand is that a world class hospital may have more superbugs,
我希望病人能够明白 一家世界级的医院里可能有更多超级细菌
but they've also got the world-class medical treatments and the experts who know how to treat you.
但他们也有世界级的治疗措施和妙手回春的专家医生
So figuring out how we talk about this in an informed way is one of the areas that intersect between my two interests of infectious diseases and medical ethics.
因此 弄清楚我们如何在透明的情况下讨论这个问题 是我对传染病和医学伦理学这两个兴趣的交集领域之一
