実践ビジネス英語ディクテーション (9/15,16)

こんにちは。NHKラジオ「実践ビジネス英語」”Talk the Talk”のディクテーションです。
Lesson 11のテーマは、‘Doctors on Board’（機内の医師）でした。Vignetteでは、フライト中に医療を要する事態の例や、機内での呼びかけに医師が名乗り出ない理由、テロ攻撃の可能性などが話題になりました。やや身近な話題でした。
“Talk the Talk”では、Heatherさんが体験された機内でのemergencyなどについて話されています。

Doctors on Board（S: 杉田敏先生　H: Heather Howardさん）

S: In our current vignette, Salmans describes a medical emergency he witnessed on a plane.
Have you ever seen anything like that, Heather?

H: I have, actually, and it was one of the most frightening incidents of my life.
It happened way back in 1992, when my mother and I were flying home after my college graduation.
There was a baby several rows ahead of us who had been crying, but very abruptly, the crying stopped.
They were serving an in-flight meal at the time, as I recall, and all of a sudden one of the cabin attendants grabbed the baby and started whacking it on the back.
That was when we all realized, to our horror, that the baby couldn’t breathe.

S: Was the cabin attendant able to help?

H: I couldn’t see clearly―her back was to me, but it didn’t seem to be working.
I remember I had my hands clasped in front of me and I was literally praying as hard as I could, “Please Lord, save the baby.”
I remember the entire cabin was completely silent; there wasn’t a sound apart from what the cabin attendant was doing.
And then, an older woman who was sitting across the aisle from the baby and its family reached out her arms and said in a very commanding voice, “Give me the baby.”
It was the voice of authority―I thought later she must have been a doctor or a nurse―and the cabin attendant gave her the baby without a moment’s hesitation.
The older lady whacked the baby on the back two or three times, and praise be, out popped a little piece of bread.
The baby started crying again, very loudly, and it was the most wonderful sound I’d ever heard.

S: Thank goodness. The parents must have been in agony.
I hope you yourself have never suddenly been taken ill on a plane.

H: Luckily, no. One time I had a searing pain in my ears from the air pressure, but that went away almost immediately.
No airsickness has been the worst ailment I’ve suffered from planes.
I eventually grew out of it, but I used to get nauseous every time I flew in a plane.
When I was a child, I traveled quite a lot with my parents, and every time we boarded a plane, my mother would ask the cabin attendant for extra sick bags in advance.
Sometimes the attendant would say, “Oh, no, don’t worry. We’re expecting a very smooth ride today.”
But my mother would just grimace and say, “Unfortunately, that doesn’t make a difference. We really do need those bags.”

S: Have you ever rendered the first aid yourself in an emergency?

H: Not, really. I’ve been present at a few emergencies on trains―once I helped the staff move a man off a train and onto a stretcher, for example.
He was very dizzy and couldn’t stand on his own.
But I’ve never really been the one providing the key aid.
I did take a class once at my company; I learned things like how to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and use a defibrillator, but I’ve never been in a position to apply those skills.
And it’s been quite a few years now since I took the course, so I probably should take a refresher.

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