在1983年，一个医生在病人皮肤上注意到了一些“黑色覆盆子”——这时砷中毒的标志(真正的伤不会是这样的)。
In 1983 a doctor notices "black raindrops" on patients' skin-a sign of arsenic poisoning (lesions are another).
医生和医院已经有了一种不愿接受Medicare病人的抑制因素，当几年前国会通过的削减费用的法律实施后，无论如何都伤及了利润。
Doctors and hospitals already had a disincentive to take on Medicare patients, as cost-cutting laws enacted by Congress years ago were anyway hurting their margins.
这导致他在伤后处于“微意识状态”，也就是说，病人偶尔有意识的迹象，但处于无法沟通的状态。
He was left in a minimally conscious state, in which a patient shows occasional signs of awareness but can't communicate.
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