or something that you know is going to go away.

或者别的自限性疾病就去植入一个药泵
You're talking about serious medical problems that are ongoing.

肯定得是那些正在进行的严重疾病
This might be for something like treating diabetes

就像治疗糖尿病
where you need to take drugs everyday,multiple times a day.

糖尿病人就需要每天多次服药
It might be for treating something like cancer

也可以是治疗像肿瘤这样的疾病
where a course of chemotherapy could last for several weeks or several months.

肿瘤的化疗可能持续数周或数月
It might be for treating long term disorders

也可以是治疗慢性疾病
like hemophilia where you're deficient in factor 8,

像是因凝血因子八缺乏而致的血友病
a protein in the blood

因子八是血液中的一种蛋白
and you need to have injections of factor 8 continuously.

血友病病人需要不断注射因子八
So,it's only for certain kinds of things

因此这只适用于特定疾病
but you could imagine that

不过你可以想象