NURSING CLASS – LILIAN MENEZES 2019

General Hospitals Comprehension

A) What three types of hospitals are mentioned in the text?
Some hospitals specialize in particular conditions ________________________________________________
like cancer or psychiatric illness. Other hospitals
specialize in particular types of patients like
B) Which is the most common type of hospital?
geriatrics, children or the terminally ill. However,
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the best known type of hospital is the general
hospital which deals with almost everything, has
C) Why are hospital department names confusing?
ambulance crews and beds for both intensive care
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and long stay. A big general hospital has many
different specialist departments. Identifying
D) Which two departments mentioned in the text, deal with
departments can be confusing because different
the gastrointestinal tract?
hospitals use different names for the same thing.
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For example, one hospital may have a ‘children’s
unit’ which a different hospital calls ‘Paediatrics’.
E) How many departments is ‘Obs & Gynae’?
‘Accident and Emergency’ (A&E) in one hospital is
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called ‘Casualty’ in another. There are many other
examples. The department that specializes in heart
F) What is a common name for the Otolaryngology
problems, is sometimes called ‘Coronary Care’.
Department?
Others call it ‘Cardiology’ or ‘Cardiovascular
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medicine’. Nephrology, the department that treats
illnesses of the kidney is sometimes called ‘the
Renal Unit’. Gastroenterology (digestive system) is
sometimes ‘the Department of Hepatology’. Synonym Match
Hospital staff often use abbreviations for (The words in bold are from the news article.)
departments. For example, they refer to ‘Obs and
Gynae’. This is a department combining Obstetrics 1. mostly a. simpler
(pregnancy), and Gynaecology (women’s
2. easier b. kinds
reproductive organs). They call Otolaryngology,
‘ENT’ (ears, nose & throat), mostly because it is 3. problems c. often
much easier to say
4. conditions d. issues

5. types e. syndromes

6. terminal ill f. handles with

7. deals with g. on deathbed

OTS https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1904/190429-measles.html Copyright Sean Banville 2019

Vocabulary

Complete the sentence with the words below.

1 The pharmacy____________medicines.

2 Take the______________to get to the next floor.

3 Go along this______________and through the doors.

4 We use___________________for patients who can’t sit up.

5 ____________________ is next to the main entrance.

6 Each bed produces 4.5 kilos of___________________ each day.

7 Dead patients are taken to the___________________.

8 Porters____________________ heavy equipment.