unit6 英语泛读教程第三册

Unit 6 Right Drug, Wrong Patient

2. Mastery of some language points

3. Learning the possible dangers caused by pharmacy errors

4. Learn safe ways to use alternative and complimentary medicines

2.Explanation of some difficult words

3. Learning the ways to avoid the possible dangers caused by pharmacy errors

caused by pharmacy errors

2.Some words might cause difficulty in students’ understanding of the text

About two periods of class will be used for the analysis and discussion of the passage itself.

Total class hours: three periods

1. Title:

---Who is wrong? / Who is to blame for the pharmacy errors?

2. Warming-up Questions

(1)What would happen if the drug dispensed to you were not the proper one? Have

you ever experienced such things?

(2)If such things happened, who do you think is to blame?

3. Information Related to the Text

(1) IMS Health

IMS HEALTH is the world's leading provider of information solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. With nearly 50 years of experience, they use leading-edge technologies to transform billions of pharmaceutical records collected from thousands of sources worldwide into valuable strategic insights for our clients.

IMS HEALTH's market intelligence and analyses give customers the critical facts they need at every stage of the pharmaceutical life cycle - from the earliest stages of research and development through product launch, product maturation and patent expiration.

With more than 5,000 professionals in 100 countries - from Austria to Australia - from China to Costa Rica - from Saudi Arabia to Senegal - IMS HEALTH is a trusted healthcare-industry strategic partner, with thousands of customers and annual revenue in 2001 of $1.3 billion.

(2) U. S. Pharmacopeia

In pursuit of its mission to promote public health, USP establishes state-of-the-art standards to ensure the quality of medicines for human and veterinary use. USP also develops authoritative information about the appropriate use of medicines. National health care practitioner reporting programs support USP's standards and information programs. In addition, USP supports many public service programs.

(3) Careers in medicine in the US

To become a medical doctor in the US, one must attend four years of college and receive a bachelor’s degree, followed by four years of medical school. Then he becomes an intern in a hospital and receives supervised practical training. As an intern, he has to “make rounds” with other doctors, visiting hospital patients. He is supposed to help give special treatments and answer emergency calls in the hopital at any time of day or night. Finally he becomes a resident at a hospital. Like the intern, he learns by observing the work of others. But the resident has much more responsibility than the intern. He often assists experienced surgeons during operations. In an emergency, he may take over the work of the staff surgeon.

Internship and residency combined take three to five years, depending on one’s area of specialization. Hospitals have several interns and many residents on their staff. A resident who is completing his residency period and who thereby distinguished himself is selected to be chief resident, a position of greater responsibility.

(4) Three types of doctors

1. General practitioners 全科医生

2. Specialists

3. Researchers

4. Text analysis

(1)Article Abstract:

Drug-dispensing errors are a common occurrence, requiring customers to be vigilant when having their prescriptions filled at pharmacies. These errors are attributed to understaffing and the consequent increase in workloads in the retail drug industry, coupled with rising prescription volume. Tips on how one's family can be protected from pharmacy errors are presented.

(4)passage division

Part I (para.1-8) By giving examples and providing statistics, the author point

out the seriousness of the drug dispensing errors.

Part I (para.9-31) Some ways on how to protect you family and yourself.