Living is risky. Crossing the road, driving a car, flying, swallowing
an aspirin tablet or eating a chicken sandwich -- they can all be fatal.
Clearly some risks worth taking, especially when the rewards are 【M1】______.
high: a man surrounded by flames and smoke generally considers that
jumping out of a second floor window is an accept risk to save his 【M2】______.
life. But in medicine a few procedures, drugs, operations or tests are
not real a matter of life and death. There may be sound medical 【M3】______.
reason for accepting electrical shock treatment, but such reasons are 【M4】______.
totally dependent in the balance of risks and benefits for the patients. 【M5】______.
Surgery for cancer may cure or prolong a life, but the removal of
tonsils (扁桃体) cannot save anything a sore throat. Blood pressure 【M6】______.
drugs definitely help some people live after a heart attack, but these
same drugs may be both unnecessary and harm to those with only 【M7】______.
mild blood pressure problems.
Deciding how much discomfort and risk we are preparing to put up 【M8】______.
with in the name of better health is a high personal matter, not a 【M9】______.
decision we should remain to doctors alone. 【M10】______.
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