Polyclinics

There is a wide network of medical institutions in Ukraine which protect the health of our people. One of such medical institutions is the polyclinic.

When a person falls ill, but his condition isn't very poor and he has no high temperature he goes to the district polyclinic and a physician examines him there.

There are a lot of specialists working at the polyclinic: therapeutists, neurologists, dermatologists, urologists, ophthalmologists, ENT-doctors, traumatologists, endocrinologists, surgeons, etc. Besides, polyclinics have their own laboratories, X-ray, physiotherapeutic, surgical and other departments. There are specialized polyclinics for the adults and children.

During the medical examination a physician usually asks the patient what he complains of and according to the complaints carries on the medical examination. The physician listens to the patient's heart and lungs and measures his blood pressure and if necessary asks the patient to take the temperature. The laboratory findings which include blood analysis, the analysis of urine (urinalysis) and other tests help the physician to make a correct diagnosis and administer a proper treatment.

When the condition of a person is very poor, he rings up his district polyclinic and calls in a district doctor.

The work of district doctors is very intensive. In addition to their consulting hours at the polyclinic they go out to the calls to examine those patients who are seriously ill and whose condition is bad. Such sick persons receive a sick-leave. They usually follow a bed regimen. District doctors are especially busy during seasonal epidemies such as flu.

Any physician of the polyclinic knows his patients very well because he treats only a definite number of patients. There is a personal patient’s card of every patient at the district polyclinic which is filled in by his physician. There are all the details about the patient in his card: the diagnosis of the disease, the administrations made by the doctor, the course of the disease, the changes in the patient's condition after the treatment.

If it is necessary a nurse comes to the patient's house to give him the administered injections or carry out any of the doctor's administrations.

Post-text assignments

Exercise 6. Answer the following questions:

1. What medical institution is aimed at the protection of people’s health?

2. What does a person do if he falls ill?

3. What specialists work at the polyclinic?

4. What departments are there at a polyclinic?

5. What does a doctor base his examination on?

6. What procedures does a doctor carry on during medical examination?

7. What helps the physician to make a correct diagnosis?

8. How do district doctors work?

9. Where is information about the patient’s condition written down?

10. How does a nurse help the doctor in his work?

Exercise 7. Find the equivalents of the following word-combinations in the text:

захищати здоров’я людей, не мати високої температури, оглядати пацієнта, міряти кров’яний тиск, міряти температуру, поставити правильний діагноз, призначити відповідне лікування, отримати лікарняний лист, дотримуватися постільного режиму, робити призначений укол, широка мережа медичних закладів, під час огляду, за необхідністю, лабораторні дослідження, перебіг захворювання.

Exercise 8. Join the word with its definition:

1	a therapeutist	a)	a doctor who deals with wounds, injuries, dislocations
2	a urologist	b)	a specialist who treats the diseases of glands
3	a traumatologist	c)	a person who performs operations
4	ENT-doctor	d)	a doctor who treats urinary tract diseases
5	endocrinologist	e)	a specialist in mental disorders
6	surgeon	f)	a doctor who knows different methods of treatment of infectious and viral diseases by using various medicines
7	psychiatrist	g)	a technician who knows how to treat and repair teeth
8	dentist	h)	a specialist who deals with diseases of ears, nose, throat

Exercise 9. a) Learn the given expressions. Pay attention to the use of prepositions:

according to	згідно з
in addition to	в додаток до
to be ill with	захворіти на
to call in a doctor	викликати лікаря
to carry on	проводити
to complain of	скаржитися на
to fill in the patient’s card	заповнювати картку пацієнта
to go out to the calls	ходити на виклики
to listen to the heart and lungs	прослуховувати серце та легені
to ring up the polyclinic	подзвонити у поліклініку

b) Supply the necessary prepositions:

1. Listening … classical music helps to relax.

2. … night patient Davis complained … chest pain.

3. He is … a sick-leave now, because he is ill … pneumonia.

4. The nurse usually fills ... the patient's cards … the morning.

5. Medical students study ethics and philosophy in addition … basic science.

6. Patients with high temperature ring … the polyclinic and call … a doctor.

7. Pavlov carried ... many experiments to determine the nature of conditioned reflexes.

8. You should take these pills twice … a day according … the doctor’s administrations.

Exercise 10. Guess when it happened and read the dates correctly:

1900 11th century

1852-1859 1929

1825 1948

August 21st, 2010 1832

4. Pirogov became a student of the Medical Faculty of Moscow University in …, even though he was only 14.

5. In … Pirogov wrote his doctor’s thesis dedicated to the ligation of ventral aorta.

6. From … to … Pirogov created his famous anatomical atlas, Topographical anatomy of the human body.

7. In … A. Fleming discovered penicillin.

8. The first hospitals in Kyiv Rus appeared in … .

9. A few years later after the World War II the United Nations held an International Health Conference during which it was decided to found World Health Organization in … .

10. Our Medical university was created as the medical faculty of Novorossiysk University in … .

11. Odessa medical university became national on … .