Lesson 18
Quack Doctor
江湖术士
一、江湖术士的医疗市场
1、In this world, whenever you have difficult things to tackle, there would always be pretentious people who will offer help.
2、Incurable diseases such as late-stage cancer, hepatitis B, skin disease, myasthenia gravis, renal failure, diabetes and necrosis of the femoral head are diseases which can be cured with a few servings of a secret recipe according to these people.
3、A healthy and well-educated person will ignore such nonsense, but ignorant and helpless patients are likely to look for help from these quack doctors.
4、Even an intellectual person may go to see a quack doctor for a fluke when an incurable disease put him into despair.
二、江湖医生的特点
5、The advantage of a quack doctor is that he never gives up; as long as the patient can breathe he would keep on persuading the financial supporter to purchase his medicine.
6、If the family agreed, they would pry open the dead man's mouth and fill it with his drugs, promising that the dead would come back to life as long as the drug was taken continuously.
7、Quacks are never ordinary people; they all have a leading psychological quality.
8、 Having spent tremendous amounts of money, delayed the chances for the disease to be cured, even lost the patient's life, the only benefit is the patient's passing away with hope.
三、江湖术士的另一领域
9、Besides curing the incurable, these swindlers are also "good" at teaching you how to invest to earn much money easily in a short time.
10、They produce various ways of getting rich quickly just in order to cheat the money from those who want to earn a lot of money easily.
11、He who believes them will lose all the money he has or has borrowed.
四、江湖术士的本质
12、These swindlers never beg for you to believe them, for there are always people who trust them.
13、They are descendants of those who sold quack medicines in open air bazaars, but now they appear on TV, newspaper and the internet as experts ,scholars and successful persons claiming to have high-technology, selling similar things as their predecessors but in different form.
14、They compose some seemingly scientific concepts to make a set of theo ries using premises and conclusions and repeat it again and again until someone believes it.
五、江湖术士的新行当
15、Now, their talent has been used in another area: to teach English.
16、They teach people how to memorize 200 vocabulary words in one hour and how to speak English fluently in one month or they will teach you how to improve your grade from a failing grade to a 100% and so on.
17、Specially-trained lecturers have the ability to make all your nerve cells excited for an hour's lesson, and then you would be willing to take out your money and buy the beautifully-packaged garbage, which you would eventually throw in a corner of your house and never take another glance.
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