Passage B     How would big data play a role in the twenty-first century medicine? To answer this question, we
may learn something from the forerunners-the Dutch and the Japanese. Though from very different
cultural contexts, both collect big data not only to analyze the existing problems, but also to predict the
future curve concerning both personal and public health wisely.
    It is true that the total population in Taiwan is decreasing, but people are also living longer.
Therefore, a lot of the Public Health Insurance payments go to the aging and the unhealthy
disproportionately. To stop this imbalanced money drain, we should promote the preventive medicine,
reduce bedridden days, and encourage the signing of donor cards-though the last one might be a
cultural taboo difficult to break in the short term.
    Meanwhile, there is another factor--our contemporary society is getting more and more M-shaped.
On the one hand, the rich get richer； on the other, the poor become poorer. This results in their different types of unhealthiness: the rich would get more obese, leading to chronic diseases such as cardiovascular ones, or diabetes, as well as mental problems； the poor, confronted with worsening living conditions,might develop alcoholism, drug addiction, and another set of mental illnesses. Not to mention the middle class who suffer yet another set of psychosomatic problems.
    Hence to respond to the future extremes of the health spectrum, the govemnment's policy to freeze
the quota of total physicians to just 1,300 graduates ever since 2008 needs reconsideration now. How
should postgraduate medical students prepare themselves to be future physicians? Even though
physician training is bound to be tough, and students (candidates) are under constant distress, potential
trainees should first brace themselves for the ever-changing world and adjust themselves. Second, they
should constantly remind themselves of their original motive-to save people's lives. Finally, it is
advisable to take the advantage of the increasingly internet-linked world, and try to take the initiative to
reach out to the outside world.
    "Where there is a will, there is a way." Though this sounds like a cliche, yet leamning to articulate
stories of their future outposts may lead to a win-win situation. As specialists, or general practitioners,
they may not be able to solve all the problems. Yet at least they can tell their stories via podcast (or other social media) so that the outsiders can hear the true stories and apply different ways to help. In other words, they shouldn't _______themselves to the comfort zone, or take the city living standard for
granted. If they change their mindset, they would really feel rewarded by the help they render to others,
and benefit their own body, soul, and spirit.
【題組】44. Which of the following statements support the importance of increasing the number of physiciansin Taiwan, according to the passage?
(A) The internet world is an advantage to physicians.
(B) A fixed physician number is no longer fashionable.
(C) Severe health situations may arise in the future.
(D) Physicians should adapt to the dynamic world.
(E) Specialists are unable to solve all the problems.