11. Medical Service Departments and Centres

1. Hospital

• admission to the hospital

• on admission to the hospital

2. health centre

3. holiday home / centre

4. sanatorium (only TB), pl. sanatoria

5. spa town

6. resort

7. reception

8. consulting room

9. surgery; operating theatre

10. laboratory

11. X-ray department

12. Maternity Hospital / Mother & Child Care Hospital

13. Nursing station

14. ward; Intensive Therapy Ward

15. Ambulance

12. Some Other Useful Words and Word Combinations

1. patient

2. cripple

3. convalescent

Fatigue

1. to be quite done;

2. to be tired to death;

3. to be fagged out altogether;

4. to be tired after the strain of the day;

5. to be worn out;

Sleep

1. to feel sleepy (drowsy);

2. to stifle a yawn;

3. to feel like turning in;

4. to have a nap;

5. off you go and pop into bed;

6. to feel wakeful;

7. to be dead (sound, fast) asleep;

8. as soon as he hit the pillow, he was dead to world;

9. lack of sleep;

10. to sleep by snatches;

11. nightmares ride me every night;

12. to oversleep

13. insomnia

Exercise 1. Answer the following questions using the topical vocabulary.

1. What are the symptoms of flu (tonsillitis, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, etc.)? 2. Who is treated at the policlinic, and who is treated at the hospital? 3. What do you do when you fall ill? 4. What does the doctor do when he comes to examine you? 5. What do you feel when you have flu? 6. How does a sick person look? 7. How should we translate into Russian “He is ill” and “He has ill manners”? 8. What catching diseases do you know? 9. What catching diseases are considered to be children’s diseases? 10. Have you ever had any catching diseases? What? 10. Where are people treated in our country? 11. Who do you usually call for in case of an accident?

Exercise 2. When an Englishmen asks you about your health, he is probably only doing so out of politeness. Unless he knows you have been ill, he is certainly not expecting a detailed medical report, and will be most surprised if you give him one.

a) Listen to the following dialogues, mark stresses and intonation, learn them by heart and act in class.

b ) Compose your own dialogues.

(Michael Ockenden. Situational Dialogues.)

Exercise 3. How many synonyms of the following words and word combinations do you know?

to fill a tooth; to feel ill; to catch a cold; sharp pain; to get well; infectious disease; high blood pressure; to keep one’s bed; to dress the wound; pipette; complications; pneumonia; to check blood pressure; bone break; low blood pressure; surgery; to pull out a tooth; to feel nauseous; to be on the point of death; to be tired to death; hot bottle; to give a shot of medicine; blood test; maternity hospital; laxative, flu; soporific, my foot is sore; pain killer; to be near-sighted; sedative; to check one’s lungs.

Exercise 4. Say in one word.

1. a set of red spots on the skin, caused by illness; 2. a medical condition caused by an illness in which the sufferer suddenly develops a very high temperature; 3. a doctor who is trained in general medicine and whose work is to treat people in a certain local area; 4. an instrument used esp. in science and medicine, which consists of a hollow tube into which liquid can be sucked and from which it can be pushed out, esp. through a needle, to put drugs into the body; 5. a long narrow piece of material, esp. cloth, for tying round a wound or round a part of the body that has been hurt; 6. a stick with a piece that fits under the arm, for supporting a person who has difficulty in walking; 7. to introduce a weak form of disease into someone as a protection against a disease; 8. a doctor whose job is to perform medical operations; 9. an oily substance, often medical to be rubbed on the skin; 10. a mass of diseased cells in the body which have divided and increased too quickly, causing swelling and illness; 11. a condition of having an unborn child in the body; 12. to have a sudden uncontrolled burst of air out of the nose, caused by discomfort in the nose; 13. the condition of being unable to empty the bowels frequently enough or efficiently; 14. the cracking or braking of the bone; 15. a person receiving treatment from a doctor or/and in a hospital.

E xercise 5. Match the Russian words in the left box with their English equivalents in the right box.

1. п оставить клизму

2. корь

3. психиатр

4. одноразовый шприц

5. вставные челюсти

6. анализ на группу крови

7. рвота

8. наследственная болезнь

9. ветрянка

10. сделать прививку от столбняка

11. носитель болезни

12. пропотеть, чтобы сбить температуру

13. лекарь, целитель

14. свинка

15. калека

16. инвалидная коляска

17. мазь

18. стерильная маска

19. история болезни

20. таблица для проверки зрения

21. расстройство желудка

22. капельница

23. пищеварение

24. гипс

25. острая боль

1. digestion

2. wheel chair

3. chicken pox

4. to sweat the fever off

5. healer

6. plaster cast

7. cripple

8. ointment

9. acute pain

10. to give an enema

11. a set of false teeth

12. disease carrier

13. mumps

14. diarrhoea

15. a disposable syringe

16. measles

17. hereditary disease

18. blood typing

19. sterile face mask

20. infusion apparatus

21. chart of eye-grounds

22. case history papers

23. to inoculate against tetanus

24. psychiatrist

25. vomiting

Exercise 6. Translate the following sentences from English into Russian.

1. He was taken to hospital and operated on (and underwent an operation) for appendicitis.

2. After I’ve had some injections of tonic I feel quite cured of all my ailments.

3. The child is ill (laid up) with chicken pox. He’ll soon recover if no complications set in.

4. Small pox is a catching disease marked by fever and small red spots on the body. It often leaves permanent marks.

5. People who are treated in health centres (policlinics) are called out-patients, those who stay in hospital are called in-patients.

6. Something is wrong with my legs; all my joints ache and when I bent my right knee it hurts me.

7. The old man’s sight is getting dim, his eyes are sore, swollen and itch.

Exercise 7. Give English equivalents of the following words and word combinations.

1. столбняк; 2. высокое кровяное давление (2); 3. ноющая боль; 4. окулист; 5. больничный лист; 6. приемная; 7. лечиться у участкового врача; 8. восстанавливать здоровье; 9. у вас воспалены гланды; 10. кашлять; 11. поставить горчичники на спину; 12. придерживаться диеты; 13. курс медицинского лечения; 14. слепота; 15. астма; 16. шум в сердце; 17. рак; 18. мозоль; 19. смещение кости; 20. нервный припадок; 21. боль в желудке; 22. охрипнуть; 23. меня бросает то в жар, то в холод; 24. заложенный нос; 25. болезнь приобрела тяжелый характер; 26. заразиться; 27. желтуха; 28. защитные силы организма; 29. банки; 30. грипп.

E xercise 8. Listen to the following dialogues. Mark stresses and intonation. Learn the dialogues by heart and act them in class.

(Michael Ockenden. Situational Dialogues)

Exercise 9. Translate from Russian into English.

1. Я страдаю от бессонницы. 2. Я все время чихаю и кашляю. 3. У меня болит горло. 4. В довершение ко всему я простудился. 5. Я задыхаюсь. 6. С легкими у вас все в порядке. 7. Глубоко вдохните через нос. 8. У вас может быть нервное расстройство. 9. Регулярно питайтесь и придерживайтесь овощной диеты. 10. Принимайте микстуру по столовой ложке три раза в день. 11. Обещаю полное выздоровление в течение трех месяцев. 12. Зубная боль досаждала ему уже три дня. 13. Я сделала ему два укола. 14. Я должно быть схватил грипп. 15. Вам лучше обратиться к врачу. 16. Врач пощупал мой пульс, прослушал сердце и легкие и измерил температуру. 17. Она не в состоянии работать, у нее ужасно болит зуб. 18. Я вся дрожу, должно быть я простудилась. 19. Я не могу читать вслух, у меня болит горло. 20. Беспокоиться не о чем, его успешно прооперировали. 21. Я, пожалуй, приму эту таблетку от головной боли. 22. Почему ты ходишь в такую погоду без шапки? Ты ведь недавно болел. У тебя могут быть осложнения. 23. Вам сделали рентген? 24. Вот рецепт. Принимайте таблетки два раза в день на голодный желудок. 25. У вас два больных зуба. Вам нужно обратиться к врачу и запломбировать их или удалить. 26. Врач попросил больного раздеться до пояса и осмотрел его. 27. Кто пойдет в аптеку заказать лекарство? 28. Если бы ты не следовал советам врача, ты бы не поправился так быстро. 29. Как жаль, доктор забыл мне выписать капли от насморка. 30. Почему у вас одышка, у вас высокое кровяное давление или что-нибудь с сердцем? 31. Ребенок болен скарлатиной. Придется ему дней десять полежать в постели.

Exercise 10. Supply prepositions where necessary.

Scarlet fever is an infectious fever, marked ... the appearance ... the second day ... a bright red rash consisting ... closely-set red pots. Shortly after the patient develops a high temperature and suffers ... painful sore throat. ... the third or fourth day the rash starts to fade and …favourable cases the temperature falls and the patient feels better. … the end … a week the rash usually disappears. Complete recovery may be expected … the following month. The complications … scarlet fever are very serious, the commonest being inflammation … the ear. Scarlet fever is essentially a disease … children and young persons.

Exercise 11. Supply articles where necessary.

Pneumonia is inflammation of ... lungs. ... disease starts with ... shivering attack followed by sharp rise of ... temperature, ... pain in ... side, shortness of ... breath, ... cough. After ... few days, during which ... symptoms remain unchanged or increase in severity, there comes, though not in ... every case, ... crisis: in ... course of ... few hours ... temperature, ... pulse-rate and … rate of breathing fall to nearly normal, and … patient, who has been very ill indeed and perhaps light-headed, suddenly feels almost well again.

E xercise 12. Give a short description of some disease using the phrases from the exercises above and following their pattern.

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ACROSS: 1. Stop a hole in a tooth with cement, etc. 3. Seize smth. with the teeth (also cause a sharp pain). 11. Fill a hole in a tooth with cement, etc. 13. Fibers connecting the brain with all other parts of the body and carrying feelings to the brain. 14. Let out the air suddenly through the nose and the mouth (usu. when having a cold). 18. An instrument for measuring temperature. 19. A kind of medicine having good effect on the body. 23. The middle joint of the leg where the leg bends. 25. A hollow in the lungs (кaвepна) 27. A person who practices medicine and treats people. 28. The drink made by pouring boiling water on dried leaves bearing the same name, often used as a tonic. 29. A coloured liquid used for writing a pen. 30. Take one’s clothes off. 31. Come into two or more parts; crack a bone, joint.

DOWN: 2. Breathing organs found in men and animals. 3. Take air into the body and send it out. 4. Exist. 5. The degree of heat or cold in the air, water, body, etc. 6. Be still, relax after work, efforts, etc. 7. Small spots (red or pink) close together on the skin (usu. a symptom of a disease). 8. Difficulty in digesting food. 9. Be aware through the senses. 10. a catching disease marked by fever and small spots that cover the whole body (common among children). 12. Give medical care to people in order to cure them. 15. A high temperature. 16. The red liquid in the body. 17. The regular beating of the arteries as the blood is forced along them. 20. An open sore on internal organ. 21. A special choice of blood ordered by a doctor. 22. Ill, unwell. 24. A person specially trained to look after sick people. 26. A short sleep. 27. Not clearly seen

Pre-reading task: before you read the text, discuss a) the symptoms of flu; b) what advice you would give to someone who was starting it; c) make a list of things they could do; d) after reading the text find out if any of your ideas are mentioned.

“You don’t look your usual self this morning,” said my wife at breakfast.

“No, I’m not feeling up too much,” I said. “I don’t know what I’ve got, but I hardly slept a wink all night, and now I’ve got a splitting headache”.

“Poor old thing”, she said, feeling my forehead. “It feels as if you’ve got a bit of a temperature.”

At work I felt ghastly all morning. My head was now throbbing violently and there were moments when I felt as if the whole office was going round. At eleven o’clock I took a couple of aspirins with my coffee, they didn’t seem to do any good. By lunchtime I had to admit that I was running a temperature: I felt hot and shivery at the same time.

I called my secretary in. “Look, Pam,” I said. “I am not feeling too well. I’m

going to take rest of the day off. You might as well do the same when you’ve finished the letters. Perhaps you would ring up Fraser and let him know”.

“Yes, of course, Mr. Garter. You do look poorly. I hope you haven’t caught this nasty flu that’s around.”

Feeling rather sorry for myself, I put on my overcoat and wrapped a scarf round my neck.

When I got home I went straight to bed and my wife gave me a hot water bottle. I certainly felt better lying down.

“I’ll bring you some lunch in a minute,” said my wife.

“No, thank you,” I said. “I couldn’t eat a thing. All I want is a glass of water. Then I think I’ll sleep for a bit.”

“Don’t you think I’d better call the doctor?” she said. “I shouldn’t be surprised if you’ve got this flu, like Mrs. Higgins.”

Mrs. Higgins was our daily help, and she’s been off work for the last few days.

Then I must have dozed off, for I woke up, sweating all over, to hear the doctor coming up the stairs. “Quite an epidemic of it,” I heard him say to my wife. I sat up feeling stiff and uncomfortable; my pyjamas were sticking to me.

“Now then,” said the doctor, sitting on the edge of the bed. “Let’s have a good look at you.” He opened his bag and stuck a thermometer in my mouth. While he was waiting he took my pulse. Then he took out the thermometer and looked at it. “Just over a hundred and two”¹, he mumbled.

He put a stethoscope in his ears and listened to my chest.

“Now the throat. Say “Ah”. Silence. “Looks a bit sore. Does it hurt when you swallow?” I nodded. “Mm. It’s flu all right. The throat nothing serious” He looked for his pen. “Look here, I’m going to keep you in bed for a day or two. Keep taking plenty of aspirin to bring your temperature down, and I’ll give you some pills to help you to sleep tonight. You should stay away from work for the rest of the week and take it easy. It’s much better to shake it off in one go if you can. Otherwise, if you go back to work too soon, it might drag on indefinitely.”

He wrote out a prescription and handed it to my wife. As she saw him to the door I heard him say: “He’s bound to feel rotten for the next day or so, but in any case I’ll drop in again the day after tomorrow to see how he's getting on. Keep him well covered up.”

For two days I was terribly week. Whenever I had to get out of the bed, I felt giddy and was glad to lie down again. Moreover, I couldn’t face eating anything; all I wanted was lots of drink and plenty of sleep. I didn’t even feel like reading. Then, suddenly, I felt much better. My temperature was almost back to normal, my appetite came back, and I felt I wanted to do something useful. Now my wife struggle to keep me in bed. “You’re not to overdo it,” she said. “Flu takes it out of you more than you think.” So I spent time propped up with lots of pillows, catching up with my reading. In fact, it was now rather pleasant.