VIII. Answer the following questions on the text:

1. What happens to sick people whose condition is too serious to be treated on an outpatient basis?

2. What is the position of list patients?

3. What does clinical case-taking involve?

4. How is a general hospital in Britain usually organized?

5. What is the relation between the outpatient and inpatient departments in a typical British hospital?

6. How is the outpatient department organized?

7. What is a ward?

8. Who is in charge of a ward in British hospitals?

9. What is the difference in ward management between a Ukrainian and a British hospital?

10. Which types of wards can you name?

11. In what way is a ward organized?

12. What categories of health workers belong to the nursing staff?

13. Which are the ranks of the medical staff in order of seniority in a British teaching hospital?

14. What does the term "doing the morning ward round" mean?

15. What are the duties of the casualty department?

16. What are the main points of a standard daily programme of a medical team (firm)?

17. What kinds of special units are likely to be incorporated in a large general hospital?

18. What are the duties of medical social workers?

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At the Doctors

У лікарні

I Vocabulary

1. Suggest Ukrainian equivalents for the following word combinations.

Consulting room, to send for/to call a doctor, to see the patient, medical aid, first aid, first-aid station, to give first aid, to check/to sound lungs, to listen to heart, io see one's tongue, to feel one's pulse, to keep one's breath, to lake a deep breath.

2. Some combinations of the type verb + down are used as nouns. Match the following down nouns and their definitions. Then make a sentence for each down noun.

a)	close down	1)	anticlimax
b)	breakdown	2)	collapse
c)	countdown	3)	demonstration or strike where people refuse
d)	let down		to move
e)	show down	4)	end of a broadcast
f)	sit down	5)	landing of an aircraft
g)	touchdown	6)	open trial of strength
		7)	sequence of numbers in reverse order
		8)	stoppage of work

3. Match the following English words and their definitions.

temperature smth that is done to cure someone who is ill

nurse a building where sick people receive medical treatment

hospital a vehicle that is used to take people who are ill to hospital

health a general condition of your body and how healthy you are

ward a disease of the body or the condition of being ill

treatment used as a measure of whether you are sick or not

medicine someone whose job is to look after people who are ill complication a medical problem that makes treatment more difficult

patient a substance used for treating illness, esp. liquid you drink

ambulance someone who is receiving a medical treatment from a doctor

illness a large room in a hospital where sick people stay