1、Nov 20, 2017This approach of triangulating the views of bevable people can have aprofound effect on your life. I knowt made the difference betn life and deathfor me. In June 2013, I went to Johns Hopkins for an annual physical, where I was toldt I had a precancerous condition called Barretts esophag

2、us with high-gradedysplasia. Dysplasia is an early stage in the development of cancer, and theo esophageal cancer is relatively highabout 15probabilityt it will turnpercent per year. Cancer of the esophagus is deadly, so if left untreated, the oddsweret in something like three to five years Id devel

3、op cancer and die. Thestandard protocol for cases like mine is to remove the esophagus, but I wasnt acandidate fort because of something specific to my condition. The doctor advisedt I wait and see how things progressed.hekst followed, I started to plan for my eventual death, while alsofighting to l

4、ive. But as you know by now, rathern following what I am told is best,even by an expert, I like to triangulate opinions with bevable people. So I also hadmyal physin, Dr. Glazer, set up visits with four other experts on thisparticular disease.Thecall was with the head of thoracic surgery at a major

5、cancer hospital. Sheexplainedt my condition had advanced quickly andt, contrary to what thephysin said, there was a surgeryt could cure me. It would involve removingboth my esophagus and my stomach and attaching myestines to the remaininglittit of my esophagus Id have left. She estimated Id have a 1

6、0 percent chance ofdying on the operating table and a 70 percent chance of a cripplinge. But theodds were in favor of my living, so hermendation was clearly worth takingseriously. Naturally I wanted her to speak to the doctor from Johns Hopkins whooriginally diagnosed me andmended a watch-and-wait a

7、pproach, so right thenand there I called the other doctor to see what each would say about the othersviews. This was eye-opening. While the two doctors had told me compley differentthings when I met them in, when they were on the phone, they sought tominimize their disagreement and make the other lo

8、ok good, putting profesalcourtesy ahead of thrashing things out to gethe best answer. Still, the differenheir views were clear, and listening to them deepened my understanding.The next day I met withird doctor who was a world-renowned spelist andresearcher at another esteemed hospital. He told met m

9、y condition wouldbasically cause me no problems so long as I came in for an endoscopic examinationevery three months. He explained to met it was like skin cancer but on the insideif it was watched and any new growth was clipped before it metastasizedo thebloodstream, Id be okay. According to him, th

10、e results for patients monitoredhisway were no differentn those who had their esophagus removed. To puttplainly: They didnt die from cancer. Life went on as normal for them except for thoseoccaal examinations and procedures.Dr. Glazer and I went on to meet two other world-class spelists and they bot

11、hagreedt undergoing the scoprocedure would do no harm, so I decided to goahead with it. During my procedure, they clipped some tie from my esophagusand sent it to the laboratory for testing. A few days later after the procedure, exactlyak before my sixty-fourth birthday, I got the results. They were

12、 shocking to saythe least. Afteryzing the tie, it turned out there wasnt any high-gradedysplasia at tall!Even experts can make mistakes; my pois simplyt it pays to be radicallyand triangulate with smart people. Had I not pushed for other opinions,my life would have taken a very different course. My

13、poist you cansignificantly raise your probabilities of making the right decis bylytriangulating with bevable people.Key words & phrasesn. to survey, map, or determine by triangulation 對三角測量定位adj. 深刻的，深厚的1)2)3)4)5)6)7)8)9)10)11)12)13)14)15)16)17)18)19)20)21)22)triangulateprofoundannual physical年度體檢前期

14、的，前的precancerousesophagus esophagealadj.n. 食道，食管adj. 食道的，食管的high-grade dysplasia重度異型增生 abnormal development ofans or cellsprobabilityn.可能性，概率nn. a licensed medical practitionerdoctor 醫(yī)生，醫(yī)師physithoracic surgery開胸手術(shù)n. 解剖學(xué)腸estinescripplev. to seriously damage or harm sb/sth嚴重毀壞（或損害）the odds機率;可能性right

15、then and there立馬，立即courtesyn. politeness, respect, and consideration for others 謙恭、禮貌v. beat the seeds out of a grain 猛烈拍打，脫粒thrashthrash sth out徹底以出結(jié)果esteemedadj. 受人尊敬的adj. 內(nèi)窺鏡的，內(nèi)窺鏡檢查的endoscopicv. 剪，剪掉clipv. spread throughout the body 轉(zhuǎn)移，擴散metastasizeto putt plainly清楚地講，簡單得講Exercises （請完成下面練習(xí)，并打卡）They have no way to yourition. 他們無法確定你的位置。1)A. Make sureB. determineC. triangulateD. loc