15._HEALTH_AND_DISEASES

- fainting – we should lie down on the floor and pick up our legs

- stings – we must cold it

* BASIC ADVICE TO SOMEONE WITH A COLD/FLU/HEADACHE…

FLU, COLD AND TOOTHACHE

- flu - you have a temperature, your body aches and you feel bad

- you have to stay in bed, take your medicines, drink plenty of herbal tea with lemon and honey

- cold - when you have a cold you sneeze, you have a sore throat and a runny nose

- you should stay in bed, drink a lot of hot tea and take some vitamins

- toothache - when you have a toothache you must visit your dentist

- usually the filling has come out, gums bleed, lose the tooth or you have a cavity

OTHER…

MEDICAL CARE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN THE USA

Medical care in the Czech Republic is paid by health insurance: employers pay for their employees, employees pay health insurance tax, children and old people don't pay, it is paid by government. However, the government encourages all citizens to be responsible for their health. People in our country go to doctors too often and buy too many medicines.

Emergency phone number is 155 or 112 from any telephone

In Britain, the National Health Service provides free health care to people in the country. Everybody is free to choose a GP in his own home area and be registered on his list (it is similar in our country). In towns it is usual for 3 or 4 GPs to join together in partnership to share the cost of expensive medical technology. The NHS system is said to be old-fashioned and it is being changed nowadays - not free of charge but paid

If you need special treatment, the doctor will send you to see a specialist at the local hospital.

In an emergency, you can call an ambulance by dialling 999.

In the USA, there are two different types of health insurance. Most people have private health insurance. If you have a fractured arm, a heart attack, or even a blister, it is possible to choose your doctor and have treatment. You pay the doctor, and then send the bill for the treatment to your insurance company. They will send you the money. The problem is that private health insurance is expensive, especially for treatment that needs specialists, such as treatment for heart attacks. If one is poor, the government will pay the doctor for treatment.

Emergency phone number is 911

CHILDREN’S DISEASES

- mumps [mamps] – příušnice

- measles [mi:zlz] – spalničky

- chicken-pox [čikn poks] – plané neštovice

- scarlet fever [skarlet fi:ve] – spála

- otitis [au'taitis] – zánět ucha

I think I have strong. So when I was a child I suffered from children – pox. My mum and grandmother usually take care of me when I am ill.

HEALTH FACILITIES IN TŘINEC

- general practitioner (GP), hospital (outpatients' department, inpatients' department):

internal department, surgical dept., dental dept., eye dept., dermatology dept, ear and throat dept., maternity hospital, gynaecologist, mental hospital, mental specialist, emergency ward, night emergency service, health resort, spa, water treatment, take a bath, massage remedial exercises