Unit 1 Personal Identification and people個(gè)人情況與人們
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Hints:
AIDS
TB
Clarissa
EMT
Nellie
One midnight, the AIDS hospice needed help. A colleague and I were shown on a bedroom. Lying there was a thin black woman with wild hair. When I was given a printout of her medical history, I thought this lady should be dead over ten times. She had a ADIS, hepatitis and TB. She had had brain surgery.Tonight she had a seizure. "Hello, I'm Clarissa, are you in pain?" I asked. She replied by cursing at me. I didn't take offense. When I rode alone with her in the back of ambulance as another EMT drove, I reread the printout. Nellie was 33 years old. No previous address. No family members. No next of kin. Her whole life as presented here was just a list of medicines, symptoms and illnesses. One line caught my attention: hobbies. Nellie's hobbies were sewing and gospel singing. I could not sew, but I love gospel music.