How much therapy does a person need? The first day I joined Wayne State Medical School, the principal 1 me, saying, "There is a senior student who lost his 2 in an accident. Before the accident, he was outgoing, always friendly. With the fitting of his artificial leg(假肢), he became lonely, lost all of his friends. Please don't say the word 'leg' in front of him." I said, "Okay, I'll 3 ."
As a new teacher, I was not in a hurry. I waited until I knew the students well. It 4 three weeks. Then I chose three students—Jerry, Tom and Joe. I told them, "I'm going to play a joke. Tomorrow, Jerry and you go to the fourth floor, holding the elevator（电梯）up there. Tom, you stand at the head of the stair well and look down at the ground floor. And Joe, you stay on the ground floor press the elevator button and complaining that the cleaner is keeping the elevator up 5 she could get her mops (拖把) down.
The next morning, everybody was there at 7:30, 6 for the elevator. I acted 7 to see them all. We talked about the weather. Then I said, "Why don't you press the elevator button, Joe?" Joe said, "That stupid cleaner is keeping it up on the fourth floor." Still further chatting, I began to 8 Joe to push the elevator button. At five to eight, the light was lit up on the second floor. I turn to the student with an artificial leg in one corner, saying, "Let us cripples(跛子) walk upstairs and 9 the able-bodied to wait for the elevator." So we started climbing upstairs. Tom saw us and waved at Jerry. Jerry freed the elevator, and the rest of the class came up on it. At the end of the hour that student got his social confidence again. I, who was also a cripple, 10 him out of the status (身份) of a cripple. That gave him a new status.
