Text 4 Study the process of investigation of lungs

«Mr. Yumpley», said Dr. Dicson “you’ll have to have some investigations done to find out exactly what’s causing your problem. Firstly we need to get your chest –rayed. Then for three mornings running, I’d like you to bring to the surgery (хирургическое отделение) a sample of the phlegm that you cough up in the morning. We’ll be sending that to the lab for testing to see if you have any particular germs present. Following that, it’ll be necessary for you to have a bronchoscopy done. This is an investigation which involves looking down into your lungs through a tube. We’ll have to admit you to hospital for the day to do it. It’s not a particularly pleasant investigation but you’ll be given an anaesthetic spray before the tube is passed down into your lungs. Usually it doesn’t take more than a few minutes, but it may last longer if they need to take samples of the tissue in your lungs – may be up to 20 minutes. You have to take this test with an empty stomach, so you won’t have any breakfast that day. You’ll able to get home again after the rest, but you’ll have to wait until the anesthetic has worn off before you eat anything.

Unit 4 hospitals in Great Britain

Vocabulary

1. cancer hospital – онкологический диспансер

2. children's hospital – детская больница

3. convalescent home – санаторий для выздоравливающих

4. cottage hospital – небольшая сельская больница (размещается в нескольких одноэтажных корпусах)

5. drugabuse clinic – наркологический диспансер

6. ear, throat and nose hospital – ЛОР больница

7. emergency hospital – больница скорой помощи

8. health center – медицинский центр

9. hospice – хоспис, (благотворительное) медицинское

учреждение для страдающих неизлечимыми болезнями

10. hospital for consumption – туберкулёзная больница

11. in-patient clinic – стационарная клиника

12. maternity hospital – родильный дом

13. mental hospital – психиатрическая больница

14. military hospital – военный госпиталь

15. nursing home – дом престарелых

16. ophthalmic hospital – офтальмологическая больница

17. orthopaedic hospital – ортопедическая больница

18. out-patient clinic – амбулаторная клиника

19. paralysis and epileptic hospital – больница для лечения

реабилитации паралитических и эпилептических больных

20. skin hospital – кожно-венерологический диспансер

1. Read and translate the text.

Hospitals in Great Britain

HOSPITAL is a term now in general use for institutions in which medical treatment is given to the sick or injured. Hospitals are classified into general and special hospitals.

General Hospitals

These establishments consist of two kinds, (a) clinical and (b) non-clinical, each of which, under the modern system, should include every department of medicine and surgery, and every appliance (оборудование) and means for the alleviation (облегчения) of suffering, the healing of wounds, the reduction of fractures, the removal of mal-formations and foreign growths, the surgical restoration of damaged and diseased organs and bones, and everything of every kind which experience and knowledge prove to be necessary to the rapid cure of disease.

The clinical hospital means an institution to which a medical school is attached, where technical instruction is given by able and qualified teachers to medical students and others. A non-clinical hospital is one which is not attached to a medical school, and where no medical instruction is organized.

Special Hospitals

Special hospitals (specialist hospitals) comprises (охватывают) cancer hospitals, hospitals for consumption, children's hospitals, cottage hospitals; ear, throat and nose hospitals, maternity hospitals, mental hospitals, ophthalmic hospitals, orthopaedic hospitals, paralysis and epileptic hospitals, skin hospitals, women’s hospitals.

2. Answer the questions.

1. What are general hospitals?

2. What is a clinical hospital?

3. What is a non-clinical hospital?

4. What types of medical institutions do you know?

3. Match the table.

maternity hospital mental hospital clinic sanatorium hospice nursing home

for women who are having a baby for people who are mentally ill for people receiving a particular kind of treatment for old people for people who are dying for the medical treatment of people who are convalescing or have a chronic illness

4. Answer the questions.

What type of hospital will you go…?

1. if you have an infection in your eye

2. if you have major chest pains

3. if you have a terrible rash on your arms

4. if you have a chronic illness

5. if she is pregnant

6. if he has an advanced form of blood cancer

Begin with: If I have a cold, I will go to the polyclinic.

5. Read the dialogue and try to determine in what type of hospital the patient is being examined.

• What’s wrong with your arm, Mr. Black?

• I’m afraid, it’s a fracture, Doctor.

• How did it happen?

• I was playing a game of tennis. Running to get the ball I fell down on my arm. I felt an awful pain when I tried to get up. My friends had to help me get here.

• That’s too bad. You should be careful. Now, let me examine your arm. Does it hurt here?

• Yes, I have a sharp pain.

• I think we’d better have it X-rayed. (After examining the picture) Unfortunately, it is a fracture. You’ll have to stay in hospital for a couple of days, Mr. Black.