2024年2月11日 星期日

reflux, medic, paramedic. cry your eyes out



Lots of people in America want to train as medics. The profession is lavishly paid. But in a decade the country is expected to have a shortage of up to 124,000 doctors. What is going on?

Man Died of Heart Attack; Family Plans Suit

The medical examiner has determined that a heart attack was the cause of death for a 39-year-old Northeast Washington man whose family said paramedics told him he had acid reflux and did not take him to a hospital when he complained of chest pains and trouble breathing.
(By Elissa Silverman, The Washington Post)
A Tennessee bride proved she really is on-call 24/7 when she left her…
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If you cry your eyes outyou cry very hard. [informal]

medic

音節med・ic 発音記号/médɪk/
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paramedic

音節par・a・med・ic 発音記号/p`ærəmédɪk/
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paramedic
A person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or to assist physicians in providing medical care.

reflux
n.
  1. A flowing back; ebb.
  2. Chemistry. The process of refluxing.

v. Chemistry., -fluxed, -flux·ing, -flux·es. v.tr.
To boil (a liquid) in a vessel attached to a condenser so that the vapors continuously condense for reboiling.
v.intr.
To be boiled in such a way.
[Medieval Latin reflūxus : Latin re-, re- + Latin flūxus, flow, from past participle of fluere, to flow.]

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