1. A nurse listens to the patient’s heart and lungs.
2. The laboratory results include x-ray and ultrasound examinations.
3. Many specialists work in the polyclinic.
4. A physician writes down a patient’ complaints in the chart.
5. A nurse makes a correct diagnosis and administers the proper treatment.
6. Every patient has a personal patient’s chart.
7. A nurse checks the patient’s temperature.
8. A doctor and a nurse work together for the sake of patient’s health.
9. A nurse gives a patient a referral for laboratory tests.
Choose the correct answer (answers) to complete the sentence:
The laboratory results help the doctor …
1. to give the first aid
2. tо make a correct diagnosis
3. to fill in a chart
4. to know a patient
The nurse’s duties are …
1. to prescribe the medicine
2. to treat the patients
3. to carry out the doctor’s prescriptions
4. to give a referral for blood tests
Read the questions in A partand choosethe correct answers inpart B:
A: 1.Who fills in the patient’s chart?
2. What helps a physician to make a correct diagnosis?
3. What do the laboratory tests include?
4. Who asks the patient’s complaints?
5. What is written down in the personal patient chart?
6. Does a physician or nurse listen to the patient’s lungs and heart?
7. A nurse administers the proper treatment, doesn’t she?
8. Who works in the polyclinic?
9. What does the physician do during the medical examination?
B: 1. No, a physician makes a correct diagnosis and administers a proper treatment.
2. The laboratory tests include blood analysis, urinalysis and other tests.
3. A personal patient's chart w is filled in by his/her physician.
4. Many specialists including general practitioners, neurologists, surgeons and others work at the polyclinic.
5. A physician listens to a patient's heart and lungs.
6. Everything about a patient – the diagnosis of the disease, treatment administered by the doctor, the cause of the disease, the changes in the patient's condition after the treatment - is written down in the chart.
7. During the medical examination a physician usually asks the patient what he/ she complains of, listens to the patient's heart, lungs and measures his/her blood pressure.
8. The laboratory resultshelp ageneral practitioner to make a correct diagnosis.
9. A physician usually asks a patient`s complaints.
Project
Do a research on one of the following issues and make a report in class:
· organization of the work of the polyclinic registry;
· an adult`s polyclinic structure;
· a child`s polyclinic structure;
· the most common reasons for admitting children to the polyclinic;
· the most common reasons for admitting adults to the polyclinic.