1. In the home country of the presenter, what do they usually do when they get sick?
2. What is there a huge shortage of in developing countries?
3. What was Laurie Garrett doing when she came up with a novel idea?
4. In container city in London, what were the shipping containers used to create?
5. What did Laurie Garrett think the abandoned shipping containers could be turned in to?
6. Where could the Doc-in-a-Box containers be transported to?
7. Before the Doc-in-a-Box arrived, how long did the villagers have to travel to get to a health clinic?
8. What services can the villagers receive in a Doc-in-a-Box?
9. According to Garrett, where are empty shipping containers located?
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1. Report one: Doc-in-a-Box? (00:04--00:07)
2. In this country, when we get sick we usually get to see a doctor or a nurse (00:07-00:12)
3. But in most developing countries, there’s a huge shortage of both (00:12-00:16)
4. Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett was thinking about this problem (00:16-00:21)
5. and flipping through an architectural magazine when she came up with a novel idea (00:21-00:25)
Narrator: Report 1: Doc-in-a-Box?
Reporter: In this country, when we get sick we usually get to see a doctor or a nurse. But in most developing countries, there’s a huge shortage of both. Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer Laurie Garrett was thinking about this problem and flipping through an architectural magazine when she came up with a novel idea.
Laurie Garrett: There was a description of a place called “Container City” in London in which shipping containers, painted in primary colors, had been stacked in unusual ways to create apartment buildings. And I, I simply thought of it at that moment and a little sort of “bingo” light bulb went off in my head. This might be the way to solve a lot of our global health problems—by converting these abandoned shipping containers into frontline medical clinics.
Reporter: A so-called Doc-in-a-Box could be transported to remote villages, far from health-care centers.
Garrett: Instead of having to trek enormous distances spanning a day or two just in travel to get to a health clinic, you would be able to squeeze this into your daily routine to come in and be tested for a wide array of infectious diseases and have your kids immunized as a matter of routine.
Reporter: Garrett says there are empty shipping containers in almost every port in the world; each one could be converted into a Doc-in-a-Box.
doc: an informal way to say doctor:
You see, doc, I haven't been sleeping well recently.
doc-in-a-box: an slang term for a walk-in center where medical professionals treat non-emergency injuries and illnesses.
get sick: to become sick
developing country: a country with little industrial and economic activity and where people generally have low incomes:
Ministers insist that freer trade could reduce poverty in developing countries.
shortage: a situation in which there is not enough of something:
There is a shortage of nurses.
Pulitzer Prize: one of several prizes given each year for achievements in literature, journalism, or music in the United States:
Whitehead won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
flip through: to look quickly at the pages of a magazine, book, etc
architectural: adjective form of architecture--the design and style of buildings
come up with: to think of a plan, an idea, or a solution to a problem:
We need to come up with a better way of making money.
novel: new or different from anything else:
This is a novel idea.
description: something that tells you what someone or something is like:
I gave the police a description of the stolen jewellery.
container: an object such as a box or a bottle that is used for holding something:
Discarded food containers litter the streets.
ship: to send something from one place to another:
These vegetables have been shipped halfway around the world.
shipping container: a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers are usually large reusable corrugated steel boxes
primary colour: one of the three colours, which are red, blue, and yellow, that can be mixed together to make any other colour
stack: to arrange things in a tidy pile:
Can you help me stack these chairs?
unusual: different and not ordinary, often in a way that is interesting or exciting:
That is an unusual name.
create: to make something happen or exist:
The project will create more than 500 jobs.
apartment: a set of rooms for someone to live in on one level of a building or house
simply: used to emphasize what you are saying:
We simply don't have the time.
at that moment: a point in time:
Just at that moment, the phone rang.
sort of: used to describe a situation approximately:
It's a sort of pale orange colour.
bingo: an expression used when something happens successfully:
I was just about to give up waiting when bingo! - he turned up.
light bulb goes off: a moment when you suddenly realize something or have a good idea:
The light-bulb went off for me when I realized I could no longer go on without help.
way: how you do something:
I must find a way to help him.
solve: to find the answer to something:
We must find a way to solve a problem.
global: relating to the whole world:
the global problem of nuclear waste
convert: to change the appearance, form, or purpose of something:
The old warehouse was converted into offices.
abandon: to leave something somewhere, not returning to get it:
They were forced to abandon the car.
frontline: used to describe an employee who deals directly with customers, or a medical professional who deals directly with patients:
A positive interaction with a client can give a frontline worker great satisfaction.
medical: related to the treatment of illness and injuries:
clinic: a place where people go for medical treatment or advice:
an eye clinic
so-called: used to introduce a new word or phrase that is not yet known by many people:
It isn't yet clear how dangerous these so-called "super-rats" are.
transport: to move people or goods from one place to another
remote: far away:
It was a remote mountain village with no electricity supply.
village: a place where people live in the countryside that includes buildings such as shops and a school but which is smaller than a town:
She lives in a small village outside Oxford.
health-care: the set of services provided by a country or an organization for treating people who are sick
center: a place or a building used for a particular activity:
a health center
trek: to walk a long distance, usually over land such as hills, mountains, or forests:
We spent the day trekking through forests and over mountains.
enormous: extremely large:
This living room is enormous.
distance: the length of the space between two places or things:
We're only a short distance from my house.
span: to exist or continue for a particular distance or length of time:
Her acting career spanned almost forty years.
squeeze into: to manage to do something or see someone when you are very busy:
The doctor will try to squeeze you into his schedule.
daily routine: the things you do regularly every day
come in: to enter a room or building:
Do you want to come in for a cup of tea?
test: to do a medical examination of part of someone's body:
I'm going to get my hearing tested.
wide: a lot of different types of thing:
The library is a good source of a wide range of information.
array: a large number of different things:
There is a vast array of books on the subject.
infectious disease: An infectious disease can be passed from one person to another.
disease: an illness caused by an infection or by a failure of health and not by an accident:
heart disease
immunize: to make a person or animal immune by giving them special medicine:
He was immunized against measles as a child.
routine: a usual or fixed way of doing things:
There's no set routine at work - every day is different.
as a matter of routine: done as a habit or as the usual way of doing things
You should check all your work as a matter of course.
port: a town or an area of a town next to water where ships arrive and leave from:
a fishing port
doc | doc-in-a-box
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get sick | developing country
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shortage | Pulitzer Prize
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flip through | architectural
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come up with | novel
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description | container
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ship | shipping container
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primary colour | stack
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unusual | create
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apartment | simply
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at that moment | sort of
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bingo | light bulb goes off
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way | solve
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global | convert
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abandon | frontline
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medical | clinic
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so-called
| transport |
remote
| village |
health-care
| center |
trek | enormous
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distance | span
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squeeze into | daily routine
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come in | test
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wide | array
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infectious disease | disease
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immunize | routine
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routine
| as a matter of routine |
port
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