Overview

One can see surgical, cardiological, pulmonological, gastroentorological and other departments in the regional hospital. Working at the hospital the nurses take the patients’ temperature and fulfill the doctor’s prescriptions. They give intramuscular and intravenous injections, apply mustard plasters, make compresses, and give the prescribed medicines. The doctors examine the patients, make the diagnosis and prescribe proper treatment to every patient. There are large and small wards and a large operating theatre in a surgical department. In this department there are patients with surgical diseases, such as: appendicitis, hernia, gastric and duodenal ulcers, cholecystitis and others. In the cardiological department one can see patients with heart diseases, such as: myocarditis, pericarditis, cardiosclerosis and others. The patients have heart troubles, breathlessness, weakness and other symptoms. In the pulmonological department there are patients with lung diseases. They suffer from pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma and others. The patients complain of a bad cough, high temperature, and headache. In the gastroenterological department you can find the patients with abdominal diseases. They have gastritis, colitis, ulcer and others. The patients feel pain in the stomach, weakness and sometimes they have nausea and vomiting. The doctors use different methods of treatment of these patients and pay much attention to them.

LESSON 12

TREATMENT OF THE PATIENT

Vocabulary

make analyses [q'nxlqsIz] робити аналізи take electrocardiogram [I"lektrOu'kQ:dIqgrqm] робити электрокардіограму stay in bed[steI] знаходитись у ліжку, дотримуватись постільного режиму drug [drAg] ліки,лікарськийпрепарат

take medicine ['medsIn] приймати ліки gargle a throat ['ga:gl 'Trqut] полоскати горло apply [q'plaI] ставити indicate ['IndIkeIt] вказувати; означати fulfil [ful'fIl] виконувати X-ray ['eks'reI] рентген

Rules of reading

CONSONANTS (ПРИГОЛОСНІ)

Letters	Sounds	Examples
kn	[n]	know
tch	[C]	catch
th	[D]	this
th	[T]	thick

Ex. 1. Read the following words:

Knee; knowledge; knife; stretch; match; itchy; catch; watch; something; through; think; health; pathological; therapeutist; that; them; further; without.

WORD-BUILDING

Ex. 2. Familiarize yourself with the following material:

Suffixes of Noun:

-(i)ty (denotes condition or phenomena)

abnormality – патологія

-ness (denotes condition or phenomena)

correct правильний – correctness привильність

hopeless безнадійний– hopelessness безнадійність

Ex. 3. Read and translate the following words:

A. Ability; activity; reality; humanity; possibility; integrity; majority; severity.

B. Weakness; illness; dryness; breathlessness; thickness; effectiveness; heaviness.

GRAMMAR:

Ex. 4. Read the following grammar material:

PARTICIPLE II (V₃)

Infinitive	Participle II
deliver	delivered
treat	treated
say	said
make	made
take	taken

Ex. 5. Form Participles II from the following infinitives:

A.locate, call, connect, examine, remember, love, need, graduate, include, obtain;

B.begin, come, give, know, see, feel, give, go, cut, do, find, send, sleep, speak, write.

Ex. 6. Read the following examples:

1. Measured blood pressure was very high. 2. Blood pressure measured was high. 3. Blood pressure measured by the doctor was very high.

1. Виміряний кров’яний тиск був дуже високий. 2. Виміряний кров’яний тиск був високим. 3. Кров’яний тиск, виміряний лікарем, був високим.

Ex. 7. Read and translate the following sentences:

1. Prescribed medicine is useful for this patient. 2. The operation performed under general anaesthesia was very complex. 3. Injured leg hurts very badly. 4. The examined patient was seriously ill. 5. All drugs taken from the chemist's shop must be returned. 6. The problems discussed at the conference are very important for cardiologists. 7. Our scientists know about great successes achieved by them. 8. One of the greatest contributions to the world science made by V. Vorobyov was "Atlas on Human Anatomy". 9. Young specialist graduated from the Medical University works as intern. 10. The patient directed to make blood analyses had grippe.

Ex. 8. Translate the sentences containing Participles II into Ukrainian:

1. O.M. Shumlyansky described the kidney texture. 2. The outstanding Ukrainian anatomist V.P. Vorobyov born in Odesa finished gymnasium. 3. He improved his education in the field of obstetrics and received his doctor's degree. 4. The Institute of Eye Diseases named after V.P. Filatov in Odesa is one of the largest clinics in Ukraine. 5. A new school built for poor children was very popular in 19^th century. 6. O. Bohomolets graduated from the medical faculty was a director of the Institute of Hematology and Transfusion.