3 Are Experts Always Right
专家总是对的吗
1 The world has become so complicated that we ve lost confidence in our ability to understand and deal with it. But common sense is useful now as it ever was. No amount of expertise substitutes for an intimate knowledge of a person or a situation. At times you just have to trust your own judgement.
2 It almost cost me my life to learn that. I was reading a book one day, idly scratching the back of my head, when I noticed that, in one particular spot, the scratching echoed inside my head like fingernails on an empty cardboard carton, I rushed off to my doctor.
3 Got a hole in your head, have you? he teased. It s nothing just one of those little scalp nerves sounding off.
4 Two years and four doctors later, I was still being told it was nothing. To the fifth doctor. I said, almost in desperation, But I live in tis body. I know something s different.
5 If you won t take my word for it,I ll take an X-ray and prove it to you, he said.
6 Well, there it was, of course, the tumor that had made a hole as big as an eye socket in the back of my skull. After the operation, a young resident paused by my bed. It s a good thing you re so smart, he said. Most patient die of these tumors because we don t know they re there until it is too late.
7 I m really not so smart. And I m too docile in the face of authority. I should have been more aggressive with those first four doctors. It s hard to question opinions delivered with absolute certainty.
8 Experts always sound so sure. Nevile Chamberlain, the British prime minister, was positive, just before the start of World War II, that there would be peace for our time. Producer Irving Thalberg did not hesitate to advise Louis B. Mayer against buying the rights to Gone With the Wind because no Civil War picture ever made a nickel. Even Abraham Lincoln surely believed it when he said in his Gettysburg Address: The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here
9 We should not, therefore, be intimidated by experts. When it s an area we really know about our bodies, our families, our houses let s listen to what the experts say, then make up our own minds.
Notes
1 cardboard carton:a box or container made of a stiff pasteboard of paper
2 scalp: the skin covering the head
3 tumor:肿瘤
4 eye socket: the opening or cavity in which the eye fits
5 docile: easily managed or taught
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