上个月我在VA的初级护理医师，在管理一次常规检查之中，发现我后背上边有了一包疑性的损害，说 “恐怕有基细胞癌。 我们叫专家检测。” 我早知道那儿有什么问题，可是我没办法看见。 连用镜子还看不见。 根据初级护理医师的转诊，昨天我访问了一位很快乐的皮肤学者。他一看病就强调：“有了！ 那就是基细胞癌。我立刻要把它切除！ ” 坐在考查桌子上的我边望了站在大夫的左边的穿着浅绿色的临庄长袍、戴着消毒面罩、 手抓着笔记板的那位护士。很显明的，大夫要开刀的话，她都不会反对。她的消毒面罩之上的两不透明的眼球没意可念。 同时，那位非常多嘴的大夫继续下去了： “你得知道，你必定要患癌症病的话，基细胞癌总是你对好的挑选。…” 贬抑患过癌症病的、捕获在考查桌子上的我只会点头。 心里想 “我抗议这种大夫，也许被变成为类似那位生性怪癖的护士吧！” 同时，大夫逐渐地曾移动位子了，乃至他正站在我和护士之间。“我有不同的意见。根据我的临庄经验，这就是基细胞癌病。要是先叫实验室作活组织检查，后等待结果，更后再看你，总是费钱、费时。 现今的约会， 我不但要取活组织检查料，并且要切除肿瘤，好吧？”
其实上， 我不会反对这位大夫所表明的态度。 三十年之前，我已经有了一次基细胞癌性的肿瘤在脸上。目前的情况比那场的安全的多。 可是，癌症病就是癌症病。基细胞癌病总是不会忽视的，还不会拖延的。 你一遭到这个诊断，要立刻下手。在这种情况之下， 一位前摄的大夫真是你最好的朋友。所以，我当然同意了， 说 “有两位大夫已经以为有基细胞癌病。 我不会反对。” 大夫很意义深长的面对了护士，强调：“临庄显明的基细胞癌病。” 十分种以后，他已经完成了手术。你必得知道，在咱们快刀武士之间，这样小肿瘤非为大事。
我想我这个毛病， 像第一夫人劳拉·布什的2006年发生的，是从虫咬起生的。
南无消灾延寿药师佛
性平
Last month, my primary care physician at the VA, in the midst of a routine examination, discovered a suspicious lesion on my upper back and said, “It looks like basal cell cancer. We’ll have a specialist look at it.” I long knew there was some problem going on there, but I couldn’t see it, even in the mirror. On the basis of his referral, yesterday I saw a very felicitous dermatologist. As soon as he looked at it he stated very definitely, “I’ve got it. It’s basal cell cancer. I’m going to cut it off immediately.” Sitting there on the examination table, I looked sideways at the nurse who was standing to the doctor’s left, wearing light green scrubs and a surgical mask, and carrying a clipboard. Clearly, if the doctor wanted to operate, she would not object. But her two opaque eyeballs above her mask were unreadable. At the same time, that unusually loquacious doctor was continuing, “You should know, that If you must have cancer, basal cell cancer is your best choice…” Being demeaned by having contracted cancer, and trapped on top of the examination table, all I could do was nod my head. In my heart I was thinking, “If I oppose this kind of doctor, I’ll probably be changed into something like that zombie-esque nurse!” Simultaneously, the doctor had gradually changed his position until he was directly between me and the nurse. “I have a different idea. On the basis of my clinical experience this is certainly basal cell cancer. If we take a biopsy and then wait for laboratory results, and then see you again, this just wastes time and money. I want to both get a sample for a biopsy, and also remove the tumor in this appointment, OK?”
In reality, I couldn’t oppose the attitude displayed by this doctor. Thirty years previously, I had already had an incidence of a basal cell tumor on my face. The current case was much safer than that one. But cancer is still cancer. Basal cell cancer can be neither ignored nor procrastinated about. Once you recieve this diagnosis, you must act immediately. Under these kinds of circumstances, a pro-active doctor is your best friend. So naturally I agreed, saying, “Two doctors have already looked at this and said that it’s basal cell cancer. I can’t object.” The doctor then very pointedly turned to the nurse and emphatically said: “Clinically obvious basal cell cancer.” Ten minutes later, he had already finished operating. You ought to know that among us fast-knived martial artists, this kind of small tumor is not a big thing.
I think that this minor illness, like First Lady Laura Bush’s incident of 2006, started with an insect bite.
I take the name of disaster-solving and life-lenthening Medicine Master Buddha,
Xing Ping
