124.Unfortunate developments in the medical profession
124.醫生這一職業的不幸的發展
Medical doctors are, by tradition, expected to be incorruptible. I found it incredible, therefore, to learn of recent reports that suggest an inclination to ignore patients' needs, in favour of kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies. It appears that some doctors are inclined to prescribe medications without regard to their benefit. Frankly, this is outrageous and utterly incompatible with professional ethics.
傳統的觀點期望醫生是廉潔的。因此，當我讀到最近的報道說醫生有忽視病人的需要的傾向，喜歡拿醫藥公司的回扣時，覺得難以置信。一些醫生似乎傾向于不考慮病人的利益就給他們開藥，坦率地說，這是不可容忍的，并且完全不符合就業道德。
I am just one of many people outside the medical profession who find such transgressions quite incomprehensible. Those individuals who are found guilty of unprofessional conduct most certainly incur the wrath of their patients, who react with incredulity to behaviour that is so outrageously incongruous with the standards expected of medical practitioners. Frankly, many patients are quite upset when they find professional ethics to be inclined on a downward slope and their trusted doctors incriminated in conduct that in many cases no longer seems to be inclusive of ethics.
很多不是醫生的人和我一樣，認為這種違反道德的行為很令人費解。那些被發現有不符合職業道德的行為的人大多數情況下必然引起病人的憤怒，病人們不相信那些與醫療從業者應具備的標準極其不一致的行為。坦白地說，很多病人發生職業道德有走下坡路的傾向，以及他們信任的醫生竟與不道德的行為—在很多情況下，這種行為似乎不再含有道德的概念—他們很苦惱。
A leading social commentator recently asked the following incisive question, "is this kind of behaviour a sign of an incipient general malaise in modern society?" he came to this conclusion:" whatever the answer to that question may be, it is inconceivable that this widespread incongruity should be ignored, it will be necessary not only to incorporate stricter penal provisions in the medical practitioners code of conduct, but to incise the cancerous growth on the body of the profession."
一位著名的社會評論家最近問了以下尖銳的問題："這種行為是不是現代社會剛開始的整體不安跡象的征兆?"他得出了這個結論："無論這個問題的答案是什么，忽略這種普遍的不協調的現象是不能想象的。必須將更加嚴厲的處罰規定納入醫療從業者的行為準則中，并且將該行為的癌變部位從其組織本身中切除。"
The responses from many of those concerned have, to a large extent, been incoherent, and some of the evidence is still inconclusive.
相關人士的反應在很大程度上是不清楚的，一些證據也還不是結論性的。
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