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Health
- Seeing a doctor
- Common diseases
- Serious diseases
- Prevention
- Injuries, first aid
1. Seeing a doctorPrevention is important to eliminate the risk of serious illnesses. In our country health care is
paid for through health insurance.
Unfortunately, we can’t stay healthy all the time. Sooner or later we can suffer from an
illness or disease. If you catch flu or a cold it’s not so serious. You will just take some
medicine or pills and recover relatively quickly. But if it gets more serious, you need to make
an appointment with your GP and get some treatment in time to avoid more serious
complications. Preventive check- ups are also useful.
When you go to the doctor’s, you usually have to wait in the waiting room and after some
time, you can go to the surgery. The doctor usually needs to make a diagnosis, so he or she
asks you to describe the symptoms. They might include a headache, fever, stomach-ache,
backache, sore throat, sneezing, coughing, runny nose, pain in your muscles or joints,
dizziness etc. This is usually followed by a thorough examination of the body. Moreover, the
doctor might check your temperature, look down your throat, listen to your chest, measure
your blood pressure, take a blood sample or run some other tests. When the doctor knows
what is wrong with you, he can give you a prescription. You can be prescribed some pills,
antibiotics, painkillers, drops or ointments. He might tell you to stay in bed and come again
later for another check-up. But sometimes your GP needs to refer you to a specialist
(optician, dermatologist, psychiatrist, etc). And sometimes you must even go to hospital.
We may be taken to hospital by an ambulance. In case of unconsciousness or heart attack
the patient is put on a stretcher. In hospital, the injured people are examined and X-rayed at
a casualty ward (emergency room). Serious cases are immediately taken into the operating
theatre (room). After the operation the scar often remains. Some patients have to undergo
special treatment (spa procedures, rehabilitations…) to recover completely.
Causes and symptomsMatch the symptoms on the left with the cause on the right.
1. I´ve got a blister
a. I think I´ve been working too much.
2. I´ve got a headache.
b. Our bed is too soft. We need to get a firmer one.
3. I´ve got a jetlag.
c. I had too much to drink at dinner last night.
4. I´ve got a bad back.
d. I´ve just been chopping some wood.
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5. I´m feeling really run down.
e. It must have been that take-away last night.
6. I´ve got a splinter in my hand. f. I wore the wrong shoes to go hill walking.
7. My nose is blocked up.
g. I always get hay fever at this time of year.
8. I´ve got diarrhea.
h. It was an 18-hour flight and a 10-hour time difference.
Now match the following pieces of advice to the situations above.
11. Make sure you drink plenty of water. Otherwise you get dehydrated.
10. Go straight to bed for a couple of hours, then get back to your normal sleeping pattern
tonight.
11. Why not take some time off and go somewhere warm? That´s what you need.
12. There´s a special kind of plaster you can use on a blister. I have one and it helped a lot.
13. Get one of those nasal sprays from the chemist. They always work for me.
14. Have you tried a chiropractor?
15. Let me see. Have you got a pair of tweezers / pincers?
16. Stick to orange juice in the future!