問題詳情
Passage C
Born in 1870, Dr. David Landsborough III(蘭大衛), the founder of Changhua Christian Hospital
which was founded in 1896 as one of the first teaching hospitals in Formosa, was a British missionary
and physician, also a pioneer to Taiwan. Growing up in Scotland in a religious family, he took a boat
journey of three months from there to Taiwan, and spent even more months in learning the local
language. Going back to England for the last time in 1936, he left a great legacy of love. His son, David
Landsborough IV, continued his missionary work for decades afterwards.
Dr. Lan, as Taiwanese nicknamed him, was a role model to everyone who would like to be
extremely altruistic to anyone in need. The most famous feat was that he was willing to cut partial skin
of his wife (net Marjorie Learner 連瑪玉), another missionary to Taiwan, under her suggestion, to graft
onto an adolescent patient Chou Chin-Yao to prevent his skin ulcers around his knee from deterioration
and eventual amputation. Though this unprecedented operation did not succeed due to Chou's rejection
mechanism, he still survived, required no amputation, and became a missionary too.
This is not just a touching story to the local Changhua community. David Landsborough III
continued to practice allograft, or allotransplantation, a kind of surgery to graft tissues from a donor to a
recipient of the same species but not genetically identical. (Though references are now unavailable.) Yet
in 1958, another Taiwanese medical pioneer, Dr. Tsung-Ming Tu(杜聰明),the founder of Kaohsiung
Medical School, invited David Landsborough Ill's widow right after his death in the previous year, to
speak the aforementioned story in front of students at Kaohsiung Medical School. The story was painted down by a famous Taiwanese artist Lee Shih-Chiao (李石樵) as an oil painting and preserved at
Kaohsiung Medical School as a professional model to follow, even to this day.
In today's society, if physician-patient relationships can imitate a bit from this model, we might end
up with a better society.
【題組】54. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true about David Landsborough III?
(A) He spent months learning Taiwanese in Changhua.
(B) He inaugurated Changhua Christian Hospital.
(C) He returned to his homeland in his later years.
(D) He was ridiculed due to his allograft failure.
(E) He left the religious group for the medicine field.
參考答案
答案:B
難度:計算中-1
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