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Exercise No. 3 – Use the words below and place them correctly into the text:
aftereffects anesthetic appointment bandages bleeding
chemist’s emergency examined fatal general practitioner (GP)
herbal incurable insurance laboratory tests neurologist
nurse pain prescribes pressure rehabilitation
surgery surgery

Medical care: When we don’t feel well it is not always necessary to visit the doctor immediately, We can try to get over our
cold easily by staying in bed, taking pills and vitamins, keeping warm, sweating and drinking (1) ___________ tea with
lemon or honey. But sometimes when a patient is trying to overcome a feverish sickness without staying in bed and curing
properly, he takes a risk, as the illness often leaves very dangerous (2) ___________.
If we still do not feel well, we finally decide to see a physician who is called a (3) ___________. It is better to make an (4)
___________ with the doctor in his surgery time (during his office hours) if we want to avoid long waiting in his waiting
room which may often be crowded. Before that the (5) ___________ invites us into the consulting room she has to look for
our medical record and check our (6) ___________ card. Then we are ready to enter the (7) ___________. The doctor
usually asks what the trouble is and checks our chest and throat. The doctor wants to know if we have a temperature and
where we feel (8) ___________. Then he or she listens to our lungs and heart and we have to take a deep breath, he also
wants us to open our mouth to see if our tonsils are swollen. Sometimes he or she checks our blood (9) ___________, feels
the pulse or takes the blood sample for (10) ___________. We have to say how we feel, if we have a headache, a sore
throat, a cold, a runny nose, etc. Finally the doctor diagnoses the problem and (11) ___________ the medicine.
Most often we suffer from common illnesses such as flu, tonsillitis, bronchitis or pneumonia. At the (12) ___________ we
get vitamins, pills, syrup, gargle, pain killers or antibiotics. Other things available at the chemist’s are: (13) ___________
plasters, ointment, drops, ... we can also buy some medicinal herbs or herbal tea.
GP is not the only doctor we can visit. In case of more specific health problems we need the help of various specialists like a
dentist, an orthopedic, dermatologist, ophthalmologist, (14) ___________, gynecologist, psychiatrist, etc.
In serious cases, when we are injured, we have to call the (15) ___________ or be taken to hospital. The injured people are
(16) ___________, X-rayed, or generally given any kind of first aid which is needed. Fix fractures, mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation, stop (17) ___________. In case of very serious problems, the operation or (18) ___________ is necessary.
Before it, the patient must undergo a set of test and then just before the operation he is anaesthetized by means of an
injection or inhalation of (19) ___________. The patient might consequently be sent to a (20) ___________ where he
undergoes treatment, massages or exercises.
However, there are still (21) ___________ diseases like cancer or AIDS that are (22) ___________ so far. In most cases the
best help is the prevention and healthy lifestyle.

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