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A jury in Northern California has found a doctor caused elder abuse. Family thought the doctor did not give enough pain medication to a dying patient. The jury gave one-and-a- half million dollars to the patient’s family.
The patient’s children say they were sure they would lose. But the jury said the doctor was reckless and caused elderly abuse.
The patient’s son says he wanted to tell the true story. His father had too much pain.
The 85-year-old patient, William Bergman, died of cancer patient in February 1998. He spent six days at a hospital in Castro Valley, California. His children say he had too much pain because Dr. Wing Chin didn’t give enough painkillers.
The trial lasted one month. Dr Chin said he used the usual pain control system. Dr. Chin’s lawyer said that the doctor used the usual standard of care.
Family members said they didn’t directly ask the doctor for more m
A. was eighty-five years old
B. was a young man
C. had never had children
D. was a middle-aged man
In Anglo-America there are three major ethnic groups. The first is the original Indian population, who today represents a minority group. The second is the descendents of European colonists who emigrated to the two countries before the end of the nineteenth century. These majority populations normally speak English, are highly-educated, and most of them are culturally homogeneous(同类的) in broad cultural values. A third group is made up of ethnic minorities, from Asia, Latin America, Africa, or parts of Europe who have either linguistic, religious, racial, or other cultural attributes that distinguish them from the majority population.
The United States has a varied ethnic minority pattern, without the dominance of one minority group in a specific geographical area. The largest ethnic group in America is the blacks, totaling an estimated 26 million in 1980, or 12 percent of the population. Unlike the French, the black population of the United States is not culturally an
A. Few blacks live in the north parts of the United States.
B. They practice their own religion.
C. They are apt to be engaged in competition with other American citizens.
D. They are culturally and geographically homogeneous.
The men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguishing epithets were rarely added. These might be patronymic, descriptive or occupational. They were, however, hardly surnames. Heritable names gradually became general in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that surnames became fixed, although for many years after that, the degree of stability in family names varied considerably in different parts of the country.
British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic, occupational, descriptive and local. A few names, it is true, will remain puzzling: foreign names, perhaps, crudely translated, adapted or abbreviated; or artificial names.
In fact, over fifty per cent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories. Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and
A. family names became descriptive and occupational
B. people in some areas still had no surnames
C. some people kept changing their surnames
D. all family names became fixed in England
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