VISITING DOCTOR'S OFFICE

VISITING DOCTOR'S OFFICE

Is there anything more important than health? If your body suffers from any disorder your mind suffers with the body, too. You can't be good either at work or at studies. Aches and pains lead to irritation, nervous breakdown, exhaustion and apathy.

Doctors treat patients. If you have a headache, toothache, backache, stomach-ache or earache, if you have a sore throat, eye or finger, if you feel pain in any part of your body, if it hurts you to move — you need help. First of all you have to turn to your physician.

The doctor will examine you carefully: feel your pulse, sound your chest, heart and lungs, test your blood pressure. The only thing you should do is to follow his directions. Otherwise a slight ailment can develop into an incurable malady.

I recollect the accident, which happened to my best friend Peter. He fell of the stairs, hit his head and knocked himself unconscious. His mother called an ambulance but Peter was still unconscious when it arrived. He was rushed to hospital where they kept him for two days for blood tests. He was suffering from concussion of the brain and had to have some stitches for a large cut on the side of his head, but fortunately it was nothing more serious than that.

My friend Paul was playing football. The players were running for the same ball and collided. The next day his eye was really swollen and he had a terrible bruise on his head. He made an appointment to see the doctor.

My friend Ann had a terrible toothache, so she made an appointment to see the dentist. He had a look at the tooth and decided that she needed a filling The cavity was a big one, so he had an injection first. Afterwards it felt so much better.

VOCABULARY

to suffer [sʌfə] from — страждати від чогось

disorder [dis'ɔ:də] — порушення, розлад (якої-небудь функції організму), хвороба

ache [ eɪk] — біль (особл. тривалий, тупий, вживається у виразах

have a headache, toothache, backache, stomach-ache or earache) pain [peɪn] — біль; боліти

irritation [,ɪrɪ'teɪʃ(ə)n] — роздратування; збудження, подразнення

nervous breakdown ['nə:vəs 'breɪkdaun] — розлад нервової системи

exhaustion [ɪg'zɔ:stʃ(ə)n] — знемога, виснаження

to treat [tri:t] — лікувати

stomach ['stʌmək] -ache — біль у шлунку

sore [sɔ:] throat — біль у горлі

to hurt [hə:t] — боліти; завдати болю

physician [fɪ'zɪʃ(ə)n] — лікар, доктор, медик, терапевт

to examine [ɪg'zæmɪn] — оглядати; обстежувати

to sound [saund] — вислуховувати; вистукувати (хворого стетоскопом)

chest [tʃest] — грудна клітина

blood [blʌd preʃə] pressure — кров'яний тиск

to take smb's blood pressure — вимірювати кров'яний тиск кому-небудь

ailment ['eɪlmənt] — хвороба, нездужання

incurable [ɪn'kjuərəbl] malady — невиліковна хвороба

he knocked himself unconscious [ʌn'kɔnʃəs] — він ударився і знепритомнів

ambulance ['æmbjuləns] — машина швидкої допомоги, «швидка допомога»

to rush [rʌʃ] — швидко доставляти (що-небуь або кого-небудь кудись)

concussion [kən'kʌʃ(ə)n] — удар, струс; контузія

stitch [stɪtʃ] — шов

to collide [kə'laɪd] — зштовхуватися

swollen ['swəul(ə)n] — розпухлий

bruise [bru:z] — синець; ґуля

appointment [ə'pɔɪntment] — побачення, обумовлена зустріч

filling [' filiŋ] — пломба (у зубі)

to put in a filling — ставить пломбу

cavity ['kæviti] — порожнина, дірка, дупло (у зубі)

injection [ɪn'dʒekʃ(ə)n] — ін'єкція, укол

QUESTIONS

What will you answer if the doctor asks you.

1. What's the matter?

2. When did you take the temperature? What was it?

3. When did you feel bad?

4. Does it hurt when you swallow?

5. What diseases were you ill when you were a child?

6. Are you subject to headaches?

7. Where do you have pains ?

8. What do you complain of?

EXERCISES

1. Put the sentences in the correct order.

1. I didn't feel very well.

2. She took my temperature and examined me.

3. After a few days, I started to feel better.

4. I went to the surgery and saw the doctor.

5. I went to the chemist's, paid for the prescription, and got some antibiotics.

6. I phoned the doctor's surgery and made an appointment.

7. She told me I had an infection.

8. I explained what was wrong.

9. She gave me a prescription.

II. Complete the chart with an illness or a symptom.

a bruise [bru:z]; diarrh(o)ea [,daiə'rɪə]; asthma; flu; food poisoning It hurts when I walk on it.

My glands are swollen, and it hurts when I swallow. I can Ї stop sneezing, and my nose is runny.