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Unit 6
Right Drug, Wrong Patient
Ⅰ
Objectives
1.
Understanding the text
2.
Mastery
of
some
language
points
3.
Learning
the
possible
dangers
caused
by
pharmacy
errors
4.
Learn safe
ways
to
use
alternative
and
complimentary
medicines
Ⅱ
Key points
1. Full understanding of the text
2.
Explanation
of some difficult words
3.
Learning the ways to avoid the possible dangers
caused by pharmacy errors
Ⅲ
Difficult points
1. Students may have never been aware
of the seriousness of possible dangers
caused by pharmacy errors
2.
Some words
might cause difficulty in students’ understanding
of the text
IV
Time Arrangement
passage
itself.
Total class hours: three
periods
V Teaching
procedures
?
About two periods of class will be used
for the analysis and discussion of the
1. Title:
---Who is wrong? /
Who is to blame for the pharmacy errors?
2.
Warming-up
Questions
(1)What would
happen if the drug dispensed to you were not the
proper one? Have
you ever experienced
such things?
(2)If such things
happened, who do you think is to blame?
3. Information Related to
the Text
(1) IMS
Health
IMS HEALTH is the
world's leading provider of information solutions
to the
pharmaceutical and healthcare
industries. With nearly 50 years of experience,
they
use leading-edge technologies to
transform billions of pharmaceutical records
collected from thousands of sources
worldwide into valuable strategic insights for our
clients.
IMS HEALTH's market
intelligence and analyses give customers the
critical facts
they need at every stage
of the pharmaceutical life cycle - from the
earliest stages of
research and
development through product launch, product
maturation and patent
expiration.
With more than 5,000 professionals in
100 countries - from Austria to Australia -
from China to Costa Rica - from Saudi
Arabia to Senegal - IMS HEALTH is a trusted
healthcare-industry strategic partner,
with thousands of customers and annual revenue
in 2001 of $$1.3 billion.
(2) U. S.
Pharmacopeia
In pursuit of
its mission to promote public health, USP
establishes state-of-the-art
standards
to ensure the quality of medicines for human and
veterinary use. USP also
develops
authoritative information about the appropriate
use of medicines. National
health care
practitioner reporting programs support USP's
standards and information
programs. In
addition, USP supports many public service
programs.
(3)
Careers in medicine in the US
To become a medical doctor in the US,
one must attend four years of college and
receive
a
bachelor’s
degree,
followed
by
four
years
of
medical
school.
Then
he
becomes an intern in a hospital and
receives supervised practical training. As an
intern,
he has to “make rounds” with
other doctors, visiting
hospital
patients. He is supposed
to help give
special treatments and answer emergency calls in
the hopital at any time
of day or
night. Finally he becomes a resident at a
hospital. Like the intern, he learns
by
observing the work of others. But the resident has
much more responsibility than
the
intern. He often assists experienced surgeons
during operations. In an emergency,
he
may take over the work of the staff surgeon.
Internship and residency
combined take three to five years, depending on
one’s
area
of
specialization.
Hospitals
have
several
interns
and
many
residents
on
their
staff.
A
resident
who
is
completing
his
residency
period
and
who
thereby
distinguished
himself
is
selected
to
be
chief
resident,
a
position
of
greater
responsibility.
(4)
Three types
of doctors
1. General practitioners
全科
医
生
2. Specialists
3.
Researchers
4. Text
analysis
(1)
Article
Abstract:
Drug-dispensing errors are a
common occurrence, requiring customers to be
vigilant when
having their
prescriptions filled at pharmacies. These errors
are attributed to understaffing and the
consequent increase in workloads in the
retail drug industry, coupled with rising
prescription
volume. Tips on how one's
family can be protected from pharmacy errors are
presented.
(4)passage division
Part I (para.1-8)
By giving examples and providing
statistics, the author point
out the
seriousness of the drug dispensing errors.
Part I (para.9-31)
Some ways on how to protect you family
and yourself.
5. Key words and phrases
(1) pharmacy error/drug dispensing
error
(8)medical vendor
(2)
prescription
(9) submit to
(3) dose
(10) oversight
(4) awry
(11) counsel
(5) churn out
(12)
pharmacist
(6) be attributed to
(13) adverse effect
(7) fatal
(14) dearth
6. Language Notes
1.
The new prescription that
her mother, Peggie, had gotten filled at the Rite
Aid in
Rock Hill, S.C., was for
Ritalin, a drug used to treat attention deficit-
hyperactivity
disorder.
（新处方上开的药是
利他林
，这是她母亲佩吉在南卡罗来纳州洛克山的
莱特
相助
药店配的药，一种用
来治疗注意力亢奋
/
不足的药。
）
Prescription:
an
instruction written by a medical practitioner that
authorizes a patient
to be issued with
a medicine or treatment.
e.g. He scribbled a prescription for
tranquillizer.
2.
The pharmacy industry
insists that worries over error rates are
overblown.
(
配药业坚持认为对出错率的担忧被过分渲染。
)
Overblown:
excessively
inflated or pretentious.
e.g. a world of overblown egos.
3.
These
third-party
payers
are
imposing
ever-lower
reimbursement
rates
on
pharmacies,
which
must
churn
out
a
high
volume
of
prescriptions
to
keep
profit
margins up.
(
这些第三方付款者使配药业得到的付还率持续走低，这必然造成为保持利润增
长而大量配药。
)
Churn
something
out:
produce
something
routinely
or
mechanically,
especially
in
large quantities.
e.g. Artists continued
to churn out uninteresting works.
4.
Against this
backdrop, too many people are taking the
prescription transaction for
granted.
(
在这种背景下，有太多的人想当然地看待配药。
)
Backdrop:
the setting or
background for a scene, effect, or situation.
e.g.
The
conference
took
place
against
a
backdrop
of
increasing
diplomatic
activities.
5.
And
there's
no
dearth
of
homework:
new
drugs
are
pouring
into
the
market,
stimulated by a 1992 program shortening
the FDA's drug-approval times.
< br>(
而且，家庭作业是不会少的：在
1992
年缩减
FDA
药品批准时间的项目的促动
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