Exercise 4. Read the following word-combinations and translate them. Make up sentences of your own

to consult: to consult a neurologist, to consult an ENT-doctor, to consult the patients, a consulting doctor, consulting hours;

to make: to make a correct diagnosis, to make a procedure, to make a blood test, to make an experiment, to make an exception;

to complain: to complain of poor health, to complain of headache, to complain of problems, to complain of heart discomfort, to complain of bad care;

to administer: to administer treatment, to administer certain drugs, to administer pain-killers, to administer intramuscular injections, to administer some procedures;

analysis: blood analysis, urinalysis, feces analysis, laboratory analyses, biochemical analyses.

Exercise 5. Join the words from two columns so as to make up word-combinations. Translate them.

A	B
1. consulting	a) chart
2. to be on	b) institution
3. temperature	c) patients
4. medical	d) diagnosis
5. a definite number of	e) card
6. a patient’s	f) room
7. correct	g) a sick-leave
8. proper	h) regimen
9. bed	i) an injection
10. to give	j) treatment

Exercise 6. Read and translate the text.

Polyclinic

There is a wide network of medical institutions in Ukraine which protect the health of our people. One of such medical institutions is a polyclinic.

If a person falls ill, but his condition isn't very poor and he has no high temperature, he will go to the district polyclinic and a physician will examine him there.

There are a lot of specialists working at the polyclinic: therapeutists, neurologists, dermatologists, urologists, ophthalmologists, ENT-doctors, traumatologists, endocrinologists, surgeons, etc. Besides, polyclinics have their own laboratories, X-ray, physiotherapeutic, surgical and other departments. There are specialized polyclinics for the adults and children.

During the medical examination, a physician usually asks the patient what he complains of and according to the complaints carries on the medical examination. The physician listens to the patient's heart and lungs and measures his blood pressure and if it is necessary, he will ask the patient to take the temperature. The laboratory findings which include blood analysis, the analysis of urine (urinalysis) and other tests help the physician to make a correct diagnosis and administer a proper treatment.

If the condition of a person is very poor, he will ring up his district polyclinic and call in a district doctor.

The work of district doctors is very intensive. In addition to their consulting hours at the polyclinic they go out to the calls daily to examine those patients who are seriously ill and whose condition is bad. Such sick persons receive a sick-leave. They usually follow a bed regimen. District doctors are especially busy during seasonal epidemies such as flu.

Any physician of the polyclinic knows his patients very well because he treats only a definite number of patients. There is a personal patient’s card of every patient at the district polyclinic which is filled in by his physician. There are all the details about the patient in his card: the diagnosis of the disease, the administrations made by the doctor, the course of the disease, the changes in the patient's condition after the treatment.

If it is necessary a nurse will come to the patient's house to give him the administered injections or carry out any of the doctor's administrations.

Exercise 7. Answer the questions.

1. What medical institution is aimed at the protection of people’s health?

2. What will a person do if he falls ill?

3. What specialists work at the polyclinic?

4. What departments are there at a polyclinic?

5. What does a doctor base his examination on?

6. What procedures does a doctor carry on during medical examination?

7. What helps the physician to make a correct diagnosis?

8. Where is information about the patient’s condition written down?

Exercise 8. Join the word with its definition.

1. a therapeutist 2. a urologist 3. a traumatologist 4. ENT-doctor 5. endocrinologist 6. surgeon 7. psychiatrist 8. dentist

a) a doctor who deals with wounds, injuries, dislocations b) a specialist who treats the diseases of glands c) a person who performs operations d) a doctor who treats urinary tract diseases e) a specialist in mental disorders f) a doctor who knows different methods of treatment of infectious and viral diseases by using various medicines g) a technician who knows how to treat and repair teeth h) a specialist who deals with diseases of ears, nose, throat

Exercise 9. Find the equivalents of the word-combinations in the text.

захищати здоров’я людей, не мати високої температури, оглядати пацієнта, міряти кров’яний тиск, міряти температуру, поставити правильний діагноз, призначити відповідне лікування, отримати лікарняний лист, дотримуватися постільного режиму, робити призначений укол, широка мережа медичних закладів, під час огляду, за необхідністю, лабораторні дослідження, перебіг захворювання.

Exercise 10. a) Learn the given expressions. Pay attention to the use of prepositions.

according to	згідно з
in addition to	в додаток до
to be ill with	захворіти на
to call in a doctor	викликати лікаря
to carry on	проводити
to complain of	скаржитися на
to fill in the patient’s card	заповнювати картку пацієнта
to go out to the calls	ходити на виклики
to listen to the heart and lungs	прослуховувати серце та легені
to ring up the polyclinic	подзвонити у поліклініку