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诚信的英语小故事
【篇一：诚信的英语小故事】
诚信
(good
faith)
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来增加你
的演说的感染力
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祝好
!
jerald wayne strickland
interim senior vice president of
academic affairs, university of
houston
curator
ream, chancellor george, provost cope, dean davis,
distinguished faculty, graduates,
friends and family members, i
am so
pleased to be with you on this special
occasion.
thank you dean
davis for the wonderful introduction, and i
bring warm wishes from my university to
the 2005 graduates,
their families and
guests, and to the faculty and administration
of the college of optometry. i am
especially pleased to join
university
of missouri system curator, dr. anne ream, dean
larry davis and the faculty to
celebrate this most important
event in
the life of an optometrist, the sudden and abrupt
change from professional student to
doctor.
graduates, it is a
very high order privilege and distinct honor
for me to address you today, and i am
humbled by your
collective
accomplishments as students, as clinicians and as
citizens.
the 28
women and 16 men who are members of the class of
2005 come from thirteen (13) states.
you joined this fine
university and
college four years ago as eager students with
strong academic backgrounds and
collegial spirits. i checked
with the
dean and a few members of your class earlier today
and i am happy to report that your
spirits have not been
broken, nor your
intellectual curiosity diminished.
one could rate the approximately 1,200
members of the
optometry class of 2005
across this nation as the best we have
graduated, indeed with the many changes
in our practicing
profession and
consequently in the preparatory curriculum
one can feel quite safe in making such
a statement at this and,
hopefully,
subsequent commencements.
in
addition to these accolades, one should realize
that only
1/100th of 1 percent of the
world’s population achieves the
doctoral level of education. therefore,
from a global
perspective, this is
truly a remarkable achievement.
i read recently that brevity, humor and
celebrity are important
in graduation
speeches. if i can do one out of three, i feel i
have accomplished my goal.
i want to tell you a story and share a
simple message with you.
mrs. brown was a longtime patient of
mine at the university
eye institute.
we had worked through systemic and eye
diseases and related conditions over
about 8 years. she was a
regular,
annual patient who felt comfortable about calling
me
when she had questions and sharing
with me issues related to
her
healthcare needs. we had dealt with open angle
glaucoma,
cataract surgery, diabetes,
hypertension and frequent changes
in
her refractive error.
about
4 years ago i received one of those regular phone
calls
but this time there was sadness
in her voice. remember, i was
the one
person of only a few with whom she shared her
health
and vision problems and
sometimes personal problems. i was
“her
eye doctor” and we had long ago passed the cross
cultural communication
barrier.
as we talked, mrs.
brown began to cry as she shared the fact
that her health insurance and
subsequent medicare changes
would no
longer pay for her visits nor the diagnostic and
therapeutic services that i prescribed.
although commonplace
today, these
sudden and often traumatic changes in medical
service providers disregard the
importance of trust,
understanding and
respect developed over time between
patient and doctor. this scenario
happens only too often where
this
important relationship between doctor and patient
is
strained and often severed due to
impersonal and external
factors.
the
story of mrs. brown has been repeated tens of
thousands
of times in optometry,
medicine, dentistry, osteopathy,
podiatry, pharmacy, etc. for many, the
doctor-patient
relationship has been
replaced with impersonal third party
shepherding of patients from provider
to provider. many of you
have
experienced this disruption in your
healthcare.
mrs. brown did
still stay in touch with me, about once every
year, with a phone call to me or my
staff bringing us up-to-date
on her
health and vision problems. she had many doctors
over
those years. the reason i tell you
this story is to demonstrate
and
emphasize to you that trust, understanding and
respect
are powerful magnets for
doctors and their patients. a breach
of
these will likely repel. good doctor-patient
relationships are
built on honesty and
integrity and withstand external
pressures, influences and even
misunderstandings. a trusting
doctor-
patient relationship is not easily disturbed, and
we see
in the example of my patient,
mrs. brown, it can prevail.
i was sure when mrs. brown did have a
choice to return to me
as her eye
doctor, she would bring her family and
friends.
well, it happened!
about 2 years ago, during our annual phone
call, she seemed excited and most
cheerful
—“doctor, i have
made an appointment to see you next
month, the insurance
tides have
turned.”
this brings to mind
a truism from the american frontier:
“honesty and integrity are not
something you should flirt
with
—
you should
be mar
ried to them.”
honesty, trust, compassion, fairness,
patience, understanding,
respect,
dignity, confidentiality, good citizenship,
charity and
beneficence are most worthy
traits for all citizens, but they are
mandatory traits for those of us who
occupy positions of high
responsibility
for human and health services. this is not a case
where 80% or even 90% of those
attributes is acceptable
—it’s
100%
—
much like
take-offs and landings and action potentials,
it’s all or none.
most persons have a tincture of each of
these traits, but for the
healthcare
provider it is an imperative to have a large
therapeutic and preventive
dose.
if one samples
patients regarding the traits of the “best
doctors” they know or have experienced,
each of the
previously noted virtues
can be found. patients want and
expect
their doctors to be professionally virtuous and to
be
model citizens.
you will soon take the “optometric
oath” which allows you to
state before
family, friends, colleagues and your faculty, your
ethical and professional
convictions.
in the 4th
century b.c., the greek physician hippocrates, the
“father of medicine,” laid out
common sense ethical principles
which are known to all of us in the
health professions. they
deal with
respect, fairness, justice, confidentiality,
honesty and
quality of care. “the
hippocratic oath.”
sound
familiar? yes, and after 17 centuries.
there is one somewhat lesser known
component of the
hippocratic oath; it
is “respect for your teachers.” simply
stated, hippocrates wrote and pledged:
“to hold him (or now
her) who has
taught me this art as equal to my parents and to
live my life in partnership with
him (her).”
another truism from the american
frontier: “when you get to
where you
are goin’, the first thing to do is take care of
the
horse you rode in on.”
there are few things in higher
education that reach the level of
pride
and satisfaction for a fac
ulty member
than to share one’s
knowledge, skill
and experience with others who will go forth
and practice (and teach
others).
back to mrs. brown.
she taught me important lessons in
doctor-patient
relations
—
ones that work,
ones, which i hope
you will embrace,
and practice--- honesty, integrity,
understanding, respect and
trust.
congratulations and
best wishes and stay the course and lead
the profession of optometry to new
heights, and remember
mrs. brown, every
patient can be a mrs. brown.
finally, you are now entering the ranks
of the optometric
profession with our
high expectation that you will continue the
leadership traditions of irvin borish,
anne ream, jack bennett,
larry davis,
your distinguished faculty, and your state and
national optometric leaders.
i challenge each of you to distinguish
yourself in all aspects of
the
profession. i promise you the result will indeed
be fulfilling
and rewarding. “bite off
more than you can chew and chew it!”
i leave you with some advice from the
sage and plainspoken
will
rogers:
“good judgment comes
from experience, and a lot of that
comes from bad judgment”