IV. Speaking

1. Conversation Admission of an Accident.

Morse (phoning): ^“Can I have Mr. Jackson on the phone, please?”

Jackson (surgical registrar - SR on duty): "Jackson speaking."

Nurse: “ They've just brought in an. accident."

SR: "I knew we were in for a busy day. What is it?"

Morse: "It looks rather ted. The ambulance men say it is a road accident - a man knocked down by a car. He is about 45, unconscious, with a head wound, pulse around 60, well filled, breathing stertorous; there is still oozing from bis uose. I have pot is an air-may and breathing has improved.*'

SR: "Who is the anaesthetist on duty?"

"Same: “Dr. Green.”

SR; "Ail right Call Dr. Green and also the neurologist and ask them to come immediately. I'm coming right now. Please also call George to have the X-ray ready."

A few minutes later, three doctors were tending over Ac patient. He had a laceration on his forehead miming up across the hairline, but now only slightly bleeding. His eyes were closed, but when the lids were parted with the fingers, the pupils promptly leaded to light. He also reacted to pain on touching lie wound on the forehead with a swab. There were no signs of injury to the trunk or limbs. The anaesthetist stated that the heat was normal and the BP slightly raised. The neurologist diagnosed shallow uncon sciousness with cornea! and pupillary reflexes increased, slightly more on the right than on the left.

SR to the X-ray assistant: “George, please take an X-ray of die skull AP. lateral and base.” He then went to die telephone and dialed the theatre.

SR: "Is that the theatre? May 1 speak to Sister, please?... Please have everything ready for a trephine of the skull. It looks like a case of epidural haematoma. I’m coming straight away. Who will scrub up with me?”

The Working Day of a Medical Student

1. Lead-in. Work with the text.

1. Guess the meaning of the following words.

Activity, weekday, procedure, regularly, minute, person, Latin, daily sanitation, hygiene, academician, graduate, personnel, reorganize, prize, department, initiative, status, training, leading, faculty, founder.

2. Match the words with the definitions.

1. Worth

2. Fit

3. Effort

4. Routine

5. Department

6. Disciple

7. Surgeon

8. Achievement

9. Honour

10. Facilities

11. to equip

1. the usual order, in which you do things, or the things you do regularly

2. physical or mental energy that is needed to do something

3. having a value in money

4. strong and healthy, especially because of regular exercises

5. to supply with what is needed

6. aids, circumstances which make it easy to do things

7. great respect, high public recognition

8. the doctor, who performs medical operations

9. a thing done successfully with effort and skill

10. a follower of any leader or religious thought, art, learning, etc.

11. one of several divisions of a government, business, shop, university, etc.