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Similarly, if your doctor offers a “cutting-edge treatment” not covered by insurance, look it up before you pay up.
同樣地，如果你的醫生提供了一種沒有在保險范圍內的“尖端治療”，在你付錢之前先查看一下。
I learned this lesson the hard way, when my podiatrist recommended a series of laser treatments for the arthritis in my big-toe joint.
在我的足病醫生建議我對大腳趾關節的關節炎進行一系列激光治療后，我得到了這個慘痛的教訓。
Five treatments and $750 later, my toe actually felt worse.
經過五次治療和花費750美元之后，我的腳趾感覺更糟了。
“The treatments don’t work for everyone,” explained the doctor somewhat apologetically before she rushed off to see her next patient.
“這種療法并不是對每個人都有效，”醫生有點抱歉地解釋說，然后她就匆匆趕去看下一個病人。
I later googled the type of laser therapy she’d used, and while some small studies showed good results, others were inconclusive.
后來我在谷歌上搜索了她使用的激光療法的類型，雖然一些小型研究顯示效果不錯，但其他研究卻沒有定論。
More ominously, perhaps, the device manufacturer’s website touted its profit-producing potential:
或許更糟糕的是，這家設備制造商在其網站上大肆宣揚其盈利潛力：
“Start Creating a Cash-Based Division in Your Practice with Laser Therapy.”
“開始在你的激光治療實踐中創建一個基于現金的部門。”
When Pete was at the Duke hospital for his brain surgery,
皮特在杜克醫院做腦部手術的時候，
we wanted to connect with his medical team even though we would be there for just a short time—as with any relationship,
我們想與他的醫療團隊取得聯系，盡管我們在那里只待很短的一段時間——就像任何關系一樣，
I believed that personalizing our interactions would help ensure the best care.
我相信個性化我們的互動將有助于確保最好的治療。
I placed a family photo in the recovery room,
我在恢復室放了一張全家福，
not just to comfort Pete but also to remind the hospital staff that he was a husband and a father to three young children.
這不僅是為了撫慰皮特，也是為了提醒醫院的工作人員，他是一個丈夫和三個孩子的父親。
I delivered bags of homemade chocolate-chip cookies to Pete’s nurses.
我給皮特的護士送了幾袋自制的巧克力脆片餅干。
And we gave the surgeon a note from our eight-year-old daughter.
我們給了外科醫生一張我們八歲女兒的便條。
It said “Please take care of my daddy.” When they finally took Pete into the operating room, I shed tears for the first time.
上面寫著：“請照顧我爸爸。”“當他們最終把皮特帶進手術室時，我第一次流下了眼淚。
