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?
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)
medic
音節med・ic 発音記号/médɪk/
【名詞】【可算名詞】
《口語》
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paramedic
音節par・a・med・ic 発音記号/p`ærəmédɪk/
【名詞】【可算名詞】
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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.
- A flowing back; ebb.
- 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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