57. Which of the following statements its true according to the text?
[A] Doctors will be held guilty if they risk their patients’ death.
[B] Modern medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless recovery.
[C] The Court ruled that high-dosage pain-relieving medication can be prescribed.
[D] A doctor’s medication is no longer justified by his intentions.
[答案] C
[解题思路]
本题可以采用排除法。文章第五段的最后一句指出“If you’re a physician, you can risk your patient’s suicide as long as you don’t intend their suicide”(假如你是一名医生，只要你并没有想让病人自杀，你就可以去冒险给比病人治病)，A选项的意思正好与原文相反。第六段中提到“many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying”(许多医疗界人士承认，致使医助自杀这场争论升温的部分原因是由于病人们的绝望情绪而引起的，对这些病人来说，现代医学延长了临终前肉体上的痛苦)，B选项的表述也与原文相反。同时，第五段第一句中指出“as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death”(只要医生是出于合理的医疗目的开药，那么即使服用此药会加速病人的死亡，医生的行为也没有违法)，因此医生开药是可以根据合理动机的，D选项错误。那么C选项就是正确答案，它虽然在文中没有直接的表述，但是文章第二段通过“Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect,"”(尽管裁决认为，宪法没有赋予医生帮助病人自杀的权利，然而最高法庭实际上却认可了医疗界的“双重效应”原则)暗示了这一点，紧接着第三段中“Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’ pain”(医生们一直在用这项原则，为自己替病危患者注射大剂量的吗啡镇痛的做法提供正当的理由)进而证明了这一点。
