Patient_1 Flashcards
given the reference in his file to his family’s wealth, perhaps it was also an act of deference to them to give him one of the more spacious and well-lit rooms in the hospital, despite the frequent shortage of beds and space.
deference-
humble submission and respect.
and although perhaps it was too late for common sense, I suddenly felt more than a little jittery about my first meeting with a patient whose death toll extended not only other patients but even to those trained to face insanity without fear
*jittery nervous or unable to relax.
I had expected verbal abuse, taunting, recitations of disturbing fantasies, and possibly even attempts to act on them.
*taunting - intended to provoke someone in an insulting or contemptuous manner.
I’d *wager she’s done it to plenty of others.
a large or sufficient amount or quantity; more than enough.
I would have plenty of time to get home
He was bitter and frustrated, yes, but seemed remarkably lucid, even sane.
*lucid - expressed clearly; easy to understand.
He waved at his body in exasperation.
*in exasperation - a feeling of intense irritation or annoyance.
Seeing this, Joe guffawed.
guffawed- laugh in a loud or boisterous way.
Joe showed no signs of any mental illness beyond mild depression and agoraphobia, both of which I would expect from a patient who’d been locked up for twenty-plus years facing doctors whose sanity was gradually *deteriorating.
*deteriorating -becoming progressively worse.
Then again, it was just one session, and the accusations against him were numerous.
*accusations- a charge or claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong.
Besides, I still hadn’t listened to the audiotapes in his full file, nor had I looked at the unredacted notes from the attending physicians that Dr. G—— had given me.
*unredacted -adjective. (of text) not having had sections censored or obscured for legal or security purposes.
. Mentors are supposed to support their grad students, but this one member of her committee was an intransigent asshole, constantly negging her and her work.
*intransigent -
unwilling or refusing to change one’s views or to agree about something.
her father had tried persuasion, but she was intransigent
since a lot of apprenticeship programs have weird traditions of abuse that everyone has to get through,
*apprenticeship program-s
the position of an apprentice.
the company once offered apprenticeships
when he ostensibly was suffering only from night terrors—
*ostensibly -
apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually.
portrayed as a blue-collar type, ostensibly a carpenter
other doctors had missed because of its seeming banality.
*banality -
the fact or condition of being banal; unoriginality.
there is an essential banality to the story he tells
Even so, Joe had been listed as an acute entomophobia, so this seemed like a natural expression of that fear.
*entomophobia- 급성 곤충 혐오증
But through headphones cranked up that high, it was indubitable.
*crank up - (of a shaft, bar, etc.) having a bend. the cranked axle allows the body of the carriage to be mounted lower *indubitable - impossible to doubt; unquestionable. an indubitable truth
Dr. G——’s notes were very dismissive at first,
*dismissive-
feeling or showing that something is unworthy of consideration.
he is too dismissive of the importance of the industrialists
You see, exactly a week later, that brief, almost flippant aside was followed by her final memo, which was so different it was almost whiplash-inducing.
*flippant -
not showing a serious or respectful attitude.
a flippant remark
That memo I will transcribe here
*transcribe-
put (thoughts, speech, or data) into written or printed form.
each interview was taped and transcribed
This, from my perspective, was almost the final nail in the “mystery patient no one can cure” theory’s coffin.
*coffin -
a long, narrow box, typically of wood, in which a corpse is buried or cremated.
they lowered her coffin into the ground
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No wonder Dr. P—— had snarled at me when I suggested taking Joe on as a patient.
*snarl at -
(of an animal such as a dog) make an aggressive growl with bared teeth.
the dog snarled at the boy
no wonder dr.P had snarled at me when I suggested taking Joe on as a patient.
무서운 어조로 말하다
snarl
He hadn’t been put in charge of that ward to heal anyone
*ward - ward, sick room, infirmary, sick bay
He’d been put there to act as a jailer for the hospital’s one reliable revenue stream.
*janiler -
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Noun
교도관
screw, jailer, jailor, warder, yard bull, yard hack
That very impulse was a threat to the means by which he kept his job secure.
*impulse -a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act.
I had an almost irresistible impulse to giggle
but my pedigree put me out of reach, which must have called that overgrown bully even more than the fact someone with similar qualifications has leapfrogged over him in the race to be medical director.
*pedigree - origin, pedigree, derivation *leapfrog- with legs parted, vault oneself over the backs of others who are bending down. they leapfrogged around the courtyard
all because one cruel woman had been simply too arrogant and too ambitious to handle being given a dud case for her first assignment.
arrogant *
having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities.
he’s arrogant and opinionated
dud* -
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Adjective
쓸모없는
dud, good-for-nothing, useless, hopeless, rotten, dead
I suspected, then I vowed that by the time this was over, I was going to put a stake through her heart.
*stake - pile
wondering if I was going to be scapegoated for any negative reactions.
*scapegoated 에게 죄를 전가하다
scapegoat
Once I started looking for patterns, it became excruciatingly obvious that I was being followed by two orderlies, that titans of the hospital.
*excruciatingly - to an intensely painful degree.
it stings excruciatingly
*orderly -
a soldier who carries out orders or performs minor tasks for an officer
their constant lurking presence screamed malevolence.
*lurking- 숨다
lurk, hide, sneak, occult
*malevolence- 악의
malice, spite, ill will, malevolence, malignity, animosity
He was looking at me with the same crooked grin he’d worn the previous day.
*crooked- 마음이 비뚤어진
crooked
How much of a dangerous nutcase do they say I am?
*nutcase-
a crazy or foolish person.
How much of a dangerous nutcase do they say I am?
*nutcase-
a crazy or foolish person.
I kept my expression bland, so as not to antagonize him or seem to be taking the bait.
*bland- 온화한
gentle, placid, bland, genial, benign, soft
*antagonize- 대항하다
cope, cope with, encounter, antagonize, countervail, counterwork
she was friendly and tame and would let me pet her and even hold her
*tame- benevolent, biddable, compliant, benignant, malleable, tame
His fist clenched
*clenched -꽉 쥐다
wring, press, clench, squeeze, clasp, grasp with force
Joseph snuck a cat onto our property, Martha
조셉은 마사, 우리 집에 고양이를 몰래 넣었습니다.
The sympathy I felt for Joe after hearing his heart-wrenching story stayed with me long after I excited his room on that fateful second day of our interactions.
*wrenching -왜곡하다
garble, distort, wrest, warp, wrench, wring
