Retana, a retired surgeon at the Siquijor town hospital, has seen sick people spend months hoping to be healed by witches only to eventually seek treatment at the hospital.

Retana是锡基霍尔市医院的退休外科医生，他曾目睹病人花几个月时间希望巫师能治好病，但最后还是来医院就诊。

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At issue is whether it should be legal to help a sufferer who wants to take his own life, or whether this might put pressure on the sick, the disabled and the elderly to call it quits early.

目前争论的核心在于协助想要结束自己生命的患者自杀是否合法，这种合法化是否会对病人、残疾人和年迈老人形成压力并导致他们选择先行结束生命。

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We gay people at least have the advantage of being brought up to expect the world of love to be imponderably and unmanageably difficult, for we are perverted freaks and sick aberrations of nature.

我们这些同性恋，至少在成长过程中有了这样的优势----爱是无法估量和难以掌握的困难，因为我们是大自然产生的反常的怪人，病态的误差。

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First-year teacher Amy Hanson(ph) is heart-sick at the thought she'll be torn away from the students in the small public-relations academy she started.

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Under ObamaCare a person cannot be denied coverage or charged a premium because of being sick or injured at the time of applying for insurance.

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