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6次の英文を読んで、あとの問いに答えよ。(配点 22)
Can you die from a cultural difference ? That is the question that a filmmaker
wanted to ex lore. So she made a movie about the true story of a doctor, his patient,
and their two very different cultures.
The doctor in the movie is an American. The patient in the movie is from
Afghanistan. In 1988, this Afghan man came to the United States with his wife and ten
children. In 2000, he started to feel sick. When he went to the hospital, the doctors
found a serious problem. He had stomach cancer. He needed an operation. After he
had the operation, he felt much better. So when his doctor told him he needed more
treatment, he said no. But did he understand his American doctor ? Did his doetor
understand him? Was the patient's life in danger because he and his doctor were from
different cultures ?
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That is what the filmmaker wanted to find out.
Religion was, one difference between the patient and the doctor in the movie. The
patient refused the treatment for religious reasons. However, according to the movie,
the doctor didn't ask him why his religion did not allow itt That was-a big mistake.
Actually, the patient's religion does allow tke treatment, The problem was how the
doctor planned ta give him the medicine, through a needle in his arm
/There were other
ways to give the medicine, for example in a *pill. But the doctor never told him that,
Why not ? The doctor thought that the medicine was the problem.
Another difference was language. The patient did not speak English, but his
daughters did. The doctor thought that the daughters told their father everything. But
they didn't, They never told him he had cancer. In the movie, a family friend explained
that in Afghan culture he doctor does not speak to the patient directly. He speaks to
the family. And often the family does not tell the patient the truth. Se did this patient
know that he was dying ? It is not clear in the movie.
The Afghan man died from cancer before the movie was finished. The filmmaker
makes it very clear in the movie that the doctor gave the patient excellent medical care.
She also makes it clear that the doctor respected and cared about his patient very much.
But was the patient's life shorter because he and his doctor came from different cultures ?
(2 ) That is why the filmmaker made the movie. She wants both patients and doctors
