VOA标准英语2010年-Haitian Earthquake Survivors Receive M

The aid group Doctors Without Borders says many earthquake survivors¹ in Haiti with untreated wounds are dying from infections. But thanks to a medical team from the University of Miami in Florida, a number of patients are receiving special treatment in the United States.

Antoine Joseph got a very special visit from a group of classically-trained, middle-school students. The 50-year-old patient, who suffered injuries to both legs and an arm when a building collapsed² on him during the deadly earthquake in Haiti, is a violinist himself.

"Having three surgeries last night - one in my hand and one in each foot - it's nice to be here.  It's nice to hear live music.  Besides, I played a lot of this music… so it's kind of makes me feel like I'm alive," said Joseph. 

Joseph is just one of a number of survivors who have been flown to Miami, accompanied by University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital's medical trauma³ team for emergency treatment. This cutting-edge hospital will soon export cutting-edge technology to help its medical colleagues perform life-and- death surgeries, in Haiti.

New technology like this mobile unit designed to help doctors communicate live with other medical professionals, in the hardest-hit parts of Haiti's capital.

"Part of our work for the military is to develop a hand-held device which is really a connecter to the physician or the nurse," explained Dr. Jeffrey Augenstein.  "It provides education, it provides telemedicine, so you can point it to the patient and send the message out.  It provides documentation.  All of those things."
 
Dr. Jeffrey Augenstein is a trauma surgeon who works closely with the team of University of Miami doctors dispatched to Haiti. He has treated some of the 66 patients who've been transferred here for urgent care.

"There's an influx⁴ every day, and in my opinion, that influx will increase because what the facilities are very good at doing like the USS Comfort in providing acute care, this is going to be a long-term problem and it's hard to provide long-term care when you're shuffling⁵ people across an ocean to a ship," he added.

Although some of these survivors will likely face a series of obstacles in the future, doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital remain hopeful they will survive whatever lies ahead.
 

1 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

2 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

3 trauma   

n.外伤，精神创伤

参考例句：

• Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
• The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。

4 influx   

n.流入，注入

参考例句：

• The country simply cannot absorb this influx of refugees.这个国家实在不能接纳这么多涌入的难民。
• Textile workers favoured protection because they feared an influx of cheap cloth.纺织工人拥护贸易保护措施，因为他们担心涌入廉价纺织品。

5 shuffling   

adj. 慢慢移动的, 滑移的 动词shuffle的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• Don't go shuffling along as if you were dead. 别像个死人似地拖着脚走。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
• Some one was shuffling by on the sidewalk. 外面的人行道上有人拖着脚走过。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹