VOA慢速英语:Getting Paid to Play Sick at School

Some people act sick to get out of work. Others act sick to get work. For medical actors like Ted Bell, the stage is an examination room with a future doctor, nurse or other health care professional.
有些人装病来逃避工作，有些人却装病来获得工作。对像Ted Bell这样的医疗演员来说，这个舞台是一个有前途的医生、护士或其他保健专业人士的考场。

TED BELL: "I start getting a cramping type pain right here."
TED BELL：“我这里开始痉挛型疼痛。”

EMILY TYRRELL: "And how long do they last for when they occur?"
EMILY TYRRELL：“发病时会持续多久？

Mr. Bell is playing a fifty-five-year-old patient with stomach pains that began three months ago.
贝尔先生正在扮演一名三个月前开始胃疼的55岁的患者。

TED BELL: "I’m a teacher. And several times its happened at school."
TED BELL：“我是一名教师，以前在学校时发作过几次。”

Ted Bell is just playing a teacher. But in a way he really does teach. He helps students like Emily Tyrrell at the University of Maryland School of Nursing learn to work with patients.
Ted Bell只是扮演一名教师。但在某种意义上，他也的确是在教学。他帮助像马里兰大学护理学院中Emily Tyrrell这样的学生学习如何与病人沟通。

In real life, Mr. Bell is a retired civil engineer. He now works as what is known as a "standardized patient." He stays busy working at local medical schools.
在现实生活中，Bell先生是一位退休的土木工程师。他现在从事所谓的“标准化病人”工作。他在当地的医学院中繁忙工作。

TED BELL: "And it has developed into a great part time, or retirement job actually, for me, and I go to all six schools in this region, Baltimore-Washington area."
TED BELL：“而这已经发展成为一个重要的兼职工作，事实上对我来说是退休后的工作。我会去巴尔的摩-华盛顿地区的全部六所学校中工作。”

About seven hundred standardized patients work in the area. Pay starts at seventeen dollars an hour. It can go as high as thirty-five dollars an hour depending on the project.
约有700名标准化病人在该地区工作。起薪为17美元每小时。也可能最高到35美元每小时，这取决于项目内容。

Becoming a standardized patient does not require medical knowledge. The schools provide the training. Nor does it require acting experience. In fact, standardized patient Tom Wyatt is a professional actor -- yet he does not even think of his work with the students as acting.
成为一名标准化病人不需要医疗知识，学校会提供培训。也不要求表演经验。事实上，标准化病人之一的Tom Wyatt就是一名专业演员。但他甚至也不认为他和学生们的工作是一种表演。

Tom Wyatt: "I use some of the acting skills, but honestly when its going well, I’m not really acting, I am reacting. I’m listening to them and reacting naturally and honestly to what they’re saying to me and what they’re giving me."
Tom Wyatt：“我用了一些演技，但老实说，当它进展顺利时，我不是真的在表演，而是在回应。我听他们说，然后对他们所说的做出自然、诚实的回应。”

Standardized patients spend hours training for each of their "performances." They have to remember the medical history of the person they are playing and be able to answer questions as if they were really sick. Tom Wyatt says remembering all the patients he has to play and their conditions can be difficult.
标准化病人为每次“表演”进行数小时培训。他们必须记住自己扮演患者的病史，并能够像他们真的生病了一样回答问题。Tom Wyatt说，记住自己所要扮演的全部病人及患病情况非常困难。

Tom Wyatt: "Especially when I do, you know, sometimes nine or ten cases in a week at three different hospitals, so they’re all completely different."
Tom Wyatt:：“你知道的，尤其是当我有时候一个星期内在3个不同医院扮演9到10个病例时，那么这些病例就会完全不同。”

After each session the standardized patients talk to the students to discuss their performance -- that is, the performance of the student.
在每次任务后，标准化病人会和学生讨论他们的表现—当然，是学生的表现。

Tom Wyatt: "The things that really stood out for me: your, your manner was extremely professional. And you were in command at all times. You kind of took charge of the room."
Tom Wyatt:：“对我来说这些事情非常明显：你的态度非常专业，你总是在发布指令，你似乎主导了这个房间。”
 
Kurt Haspert is studying to become a nurse practitioner and likes working with medical actors.
Kurt Haspert正在学习要成为一名护理执业者，他喜欢和“医疗演员”一起工作。

KURT HASPERT: "It is always good to do the standardized patients cause it kind of keeps you thinking about how your thought process has to go, and how you can narrow down your differential diagnosis while you’re asking questions."
KURT HASPERT：“标准化病人总是很好，因为他是一种能让你在询问问题时思考自己的思维过程应该如何发展，如何缩小差异诊断。”

The actors enjoy it too. Retired engineer Ted Bell says the students find the experience very helpful, and that makes him feel good.
演员们也很享受。退休工程师Ted Bell说，这对学生们获得经验非常有帮助，这让他感觉很棒。