2014-09-04
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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.
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?
Match the table.
| 1) maternity hospital 2) mental hospital 3) clinic 4) sanatorium 5) hospice 6) nursing home | a) for women who are having a baby b) for people who are mentally ill c) for people receiving a particular kind of treatment d) for old people e) for people who are dying f) for the medical treatment of people who are convalescing or have a chronic illness |
