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AS IT IS 2014-05-09 Bringing Healing to Victims of Mass Violence 治疗遭受暴力创伤的受害者

Hello, and welcome once again to the program that helps you learn and improve your American English.  I’m Jim Tedder1 in Washington.  Today our subject is health.  First we will hear about efforts to help people whose lives have been affected2 by violence.

Then we will meet a group of medical doctors who have found an unusual way to urge people to get their proper amount of exercise.

We are happy to have you listening, as we talk about our world …As It Is.

An estimated one billion people have experienced mass violence, torture or terrorism.  Many of them suffer from depression, anxiety disorders4 and a condition called post-traumatic stress disorder3.  Some are unable to work or care for themselves or their families. 

Now, a small American group is establishing trauma5 centers in poor countries.  As we hear from Jonathan Evans, violence was a problem in those areas.

James Okello and Liz Alderman would never have met if not for tragedy.  Mr. Okello is a psychiatrist6 from Uganda.  He treats people with mental or emotional disorders. 

Ms. Alderman is from New York.  Her youngest son, Peter, was killed in the 2001 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center.

“He did not work in the building.  He was there just for a meeting, and he was 25 years old when he died.  My husband and I needed to create a memorial for him, to leave a mark that he had existed and that the world would be a better place because Peter had lived.”

One night, she had the idea of bringing mental health care to people in poorer countries affected by mass violence and terrorism.  The first Peter C. Alderman Trauma Treatment Clinic opened in Cambodia in 2005.  The clinic had so many patients that a second center was opened the following year.

“People often ask us why are you seeing patients in Cambodia?  I mean Pol Pot was what?  Thirty, 35 years ago?  Traumatic depression doesn’t go away.  You see this in children of Holocaust7 survivors8.  Traumatic depression can go from one generation to the next.  And unless you treat it, it’s still there.”

There are now four such clinics in Uganda.  The patients include many former child soldiers and others.  Some were kidnapped more than 20 years ago by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army.  James Okello directs the clinic at Gulu, in Uganda’s North.  It helps patients by providing discussions with mental health experts, group therapy and psychopharmacology -- the use of medicine to influence behavior. 

“If there’s no form of intervention9, definitely there’s going to be a problem.  We sometimes talk about delayed post-traumatic stress disorder.  That’s the concept that, when the guns stop firing, then the mind starts firing.  So a lot of things happen when the emergency situation is long gone.”

The clinics are set up in partnership10 with governments in each country.  The centers employ only local or native healthcare providers.  These men and women understand mental disorders both in medical terms and what they mean to local culture.

“We use cultural idioms to express the same Western symptoms.  So I think anybody who is not culturally literate11, you know, if you do not understand a certain culture, you’re likely to miss a lot or even over-diagnose depending on which tool you’re using.”

The American group operates a clinic in Kibera, a poor area in Nairobi, Kenya.  It has also worked in Rwanda, Liberia and Haiti.  It provides financial support for a new medical publication called the African Journal of Traumatic Stress. 

Liz Alderman says more than 200 health care givers have been trained.  They, in turn, have gone on to teach others.  All together, the group has reached more than 75,000 patients.

Do What the Doctor Says!  And Watch What He Does!

Everyone knows physical exercise is important to staying healthy.  But not everyone is exercising enough.  A group of American doctors says it wants to lead by example.  They formed a soccer team to represent the United States at an international football competition.  The group has also developed an outreach program aimed at persuading young people to stay active.  Anna Matteo has more.

On a recent weekend, 25 medical doctors from across the country traveled to Washington, D.C. to play soccer.  The U.S. Medical Soccer Team competes in the World Medical Football Championships, also called the ‘Physicians’ World Cup.’  The championships are held in a different country each year.

The tournament will be played in Brazil two months from now, while the official World Cup is taking place.  Gautam Nayak is president of the U.S. Medical Soccer Team. 

“Most of us play locally in our own leagues, but then we have to get together a few times every year to practice in preparation for the tournament.  So it’s a big time commitment.  The tournament itself is one week long.  That was part of why we had such a difficult time forming the organization.”

Gautam Nayak is from Seattle in the northwestern state of Washington.  He founded the U.S. team with a friend in 2010.

“We had a soccer team in medical school.  And we were also able to do some different community service projects during medical school evolving around soccer.  And that really kind of gave us the motivation to form a soccer team because we felt like we can bring together a lot of people with similar interests.”

Ky Tran works as an internal medicine doctor in California.

“One of my goals is not just treating disease, but also being a cheerleader for my patients to exercise and to eat right.  And a lot of time, we need that cheerleader to encourage people to make those good choices.”

The U.S. Medical Soccer team had a busy weekend in the nation’s capital.  First, there was intense training as the players prepare for the trip to Brazil.  The doctors also visited the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington, a group that provides after-school programs.

“We are seeing a tremendous increase in young people becoming obese12 at a very, very early age, developing illnesses that are generally seen in older patients.  And we are trying to encourage young people to make better choices in their food and to get more active.”

Ky Tran says the doctors also urged the boys and girls to think about careers in medicine.

“A lot of populations that, when we do our outreach program, are at risk youth.  We could encourage young people maybe not become a physician, but also think other possible professions in the medical field that they may never have been exposed before.”

 

The U.S. Medical Soccer Team is preparing for the 2015 World Medical Football Championships.  That tournament will take place in California.  I’m Anna Matteo.


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1 tedder 2833afc4f8252d8dc9f8cd73b24db55d     
n.(干草)翻晒者,翻晒机
参考例句:
  • Jim Tedder has more. 吉姆?特德将给我们做更多的介绍。 来自互联网
  • Jim Tedder tells us more. 吉姆?泰德给我们带来更详细的报道。 来自互联网
2 affected TzUzg0     
adj.不自然的,假装的
参考例句:
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
3 disorder Et1x4     
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调
参考例句:
  • When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后,他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
  • It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
4 disorders 6e49dcafe3638183c823d3aa5b12b010     
n.混乱( disorder的名词复数 );凌乱;骚乱;(身心、机能)失调
参考例句:
  • Reports of anorexia and other eating disorders are on the increase. 据报告,厌食症和其他饮食方面的功能紊乱发生率正在不断增长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The announcement led to violent civil disorders. 这项宣布引起剧烈的骚乱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 trauma TJIzJ     
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。
6 psychiatrist F0qzf     
n.精神病专家;精神病医师
参考例句:
  • He went to a psychiatrist about his compulsive gambling.他去看精神科医生治疗不能自拔的赌瘾。
  • The psychiatrist corrected him gently.精神病医师彬彬有礼地纠正他。
7 holocaust dd5zE     
n.大破坏;大屠杀
参考例句:
  • The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
  • Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀,因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
8 survivors 02ddbdca4c6dba0b46d9d823ed2b4b62     
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
9 intervention e5sxZ     
n.介入,干涉,干预
参考例句:
  • The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
  • Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
10 partnership NmfzPy     
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
参考例句:
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
11 literate 181zu     
n.学者;adj.精通文学的,受过教育的
参考例句:
  • Only a few of the nation's peasants are literate.这个国家的农民中只有少数人能识字。
  • A literate person can get knowledge through reading many books.一个受过教育的人可以通过读书而获得知识。
12 obese uvIya     
adj.过度肥胖的,肥大的
参考例句:
  • The old man is really obese,it can't be healthy.那位老人确实过于肥胖了,不能算是健康。
  • Being obese and lazy is dangerous to health.又胖又懒危害健康。

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