HEALTH & MEDICINE REVISION

Try to identify as many words as possible in five minutes.

1- You won't be able to get the antibiotics unless you have a prescription from the doctor.

2- Flu and colds are caused by a kind of v______.

3- She fell over when she was training and now her ankle is really sw______.

4- You should eat less salt with your meals as your b______ p______ is very high.

5- I can’t eat nuts- I have an a______ to them.

6- He was slightly injured but he needed to go to hospital for some medical tr______.

7- When someone t______ an o______ it means that they take more pills or tablets than they
should.

8- I feel d______. My head’s going round in circles.

9- A w______ is a room in a hospital.

10- Natural medicine which treats the cause of an illness not the symptoms is called h______.

11- He had really bad flu. It took him two weeks to g______ o______ it.

12- My brother drank too much last night and now he’s got a terrible h______.

13- A surgeon does an operation in the o______ th______.

14- To see a doctor you normally need to m______ an ap______.

15- Some tablets give you strange effects. These are called s______ e______.

16- People over 40 should have a c______-u______ at least once a year.

17- Hello, Mr Bins. Now, can you tell me exactly w______ w______ with you?

18- If you smoke, are overweight and do no exercise you run the risk of having a h______
a______.

19- If you don’t feel well the person you should see is your f______ d______.

20- If you stay in bed for a day or two, you’ll soon g______ b______.
 EVERYDAY ILLNESSES AND INJURIES

 You can have any illness or disease:

i.e. I’m warning you- I’ve got a bad cold
i.e. Have the kids had chickenpox yet?

 Get can be used with diseases or illnesses that you often have:
i.e. He gets really bad high fever every summer

 Suffer from is used in more formal contexts and with more serious diseases:
i.e. This medicine is often recommend for patients who suffer from arthritis

 You can also:

catch develop come/go down with contract

chickenpox Aids appendicitis Aids

a cold an allergy bronchitis cancer
a cough arthritis chickenpox conjunctivitis
flu cancer diarrhoea hepatitis
German measles cataracts flu HIV
glandular fever epilepsy food poisoning meningitis
measles heart/liver trouble measles pneumonia
mumps high blood pressure mumps
a stomach bug an infection
whooping cough pneumonia
rheumatism

Is it serious?

NO
a bit of a cold, a cough, an infection
mild depression
a mild attack of sth., bout of sth.
a mild heart attack, infection
a slight cold, headache
YES
a bad/heavy/nasty cold
a bad/nasty/severe attack of sth., bout of sth.
a bad/hacking/racking cough
a bad/splitting headache
a massive/serious heart attack, stroke

 What’s the treatment?

take be given/ have/undergo have/ be given

be on/take
medicine antibiotics an operation acupuncture
pills drugs surgery an anaesthetic
tablets medication a transplant an injection
painkillers a blood transfusion