2022年职称英语卫生类A级阅读推断练习题4Privacy Worry May Keep HIV Patients from TherapyPatients infected with HIV are often concerned about2 the confidentiality of their HIV-positive status. In fact, some patients are so worried that they will actually give up treatment to prevent the release of this information, according to a report published in the August issue of AIDS Care.Dr. Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein and colleagues from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina3, studied the confidentiality issues of 15 HIV-infected patients from rural North Carolina locations. They were divided into groups designed to explore their attitudes toward, and experiences with, breaches in confidentiality.“The fear of a breach in confidentiality is definitely affecting the care that HIV-infected patients receive,” Whetten-Goldstein said. “Most studied patients had experienced or knew someone who had experienced a breach in confidentiality.”“Two types of breaches occurred,”Whetten-Goldstein noted. “The first was a more obvious type of breach. One example was a nurse who told her child that her patient was HIV-positive out of concern that her child would play with the patients child.4”“The other type of breach was more subtle, one that providers might not consider breaches, 5” Whetten-Goldstein explained. “This type of breach involves providers talking about a patients HIV status without the patients knowledge of the interaction.”“The law allows the sharing of information between providers within the same institution, but patients consent must be obtained before providers at different institutions can share information,” she pointed out.“Patients in the study wanted providers to tell them when they are going to share information with other providers and why it is being done,” Whetten-Goldstein said. “They also felt that providers should be punished when a breach occurs.”“However, because patients are often reluctant to seek legal action which may further expose their status, they felt that the system should regulate itself,” she added.词汇：privacy /pr?v?s?/ n.隐私,隐私breach /bri?t?/ n.破坏,违反therapy /er?p?/ n.疗法,治疗consent /k?nsent/ n.答应,允许confidentiality /,k?nf?,den?l?t?/ n.保密性regulate /regj?le?t/ vt.调整注释：1.HIV (human immunodeficiency virus):人类免疫缺陷病毒2.be concerned about:为而担忧(忧虑、苦恼)3. North Carolina：(美国)北卡罗来纳州4.One example was. with the patients child.例子之一就是某个护士由于担忧自己的孩子会与病人的孩子一起玩,所以就告知自己的孩子,这个病人是HIV阳性的病人。本句中who 至the patients child 是nurse 的定语从句,其中that her patient was HIV-positive又是told的宾语从句;out of concern (出于担忧)是介词短语,作told的状语;而that her child would play with the patients child 则是concern的同位语从句。5.one that providers might not consider breaches：即医生可能不认为是泄露个人机密的一类。one是代词,代替type,作the other type的同位语，that至breaches是one的定语从句，that在定语从句中作consider的宾语，breaches是宾语补足语。而provider则是指美国经保险公司认可为投保人看病的医生。练习：1.All patients in the study refuse to receive any treatment because of the possibility to expose their HIV status.A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned2.Worry about breaches in confidentiality of the HIV status has nothing to do with the curative effects on patients.A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned3.Medical workers of an institution cannot freely provide their HTV-patients information to those of other institutions.A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned4.Whether an HIV-infected patient agrees to other (not his)medical workers sharing the information about his HIV status is one of the rights given by the constitution.A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned5.Most patients in the study strongly object to the breaches in the confidentiality of their HIV status.A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned本文来源：网络收集与整理，如有侵权，请联系作者删除，谢谢！第4页 共4页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页