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At the doctor's office
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- How often do you go to the doctor's office?
- Do you have any friends that are hypochondriacs ?
Scenario: Brian is a serious hypochondriac and comes to see Dr.Cohen almost every week.
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| D : |
What seems to be the problem this time? |
| B : |
Well, I feel very nauseous and week. I think I have a temperature , my throat feels
swollen, and I have a strange lump on my arm. I think I may have neumonia or cancer or some king of deadly illness. |
| D : |
Let me take a look. Your throat is a bit red but it's not really swollen. I'll have the nurse take
your temperature. |
| B : |
Are you sure my throat isn't swollen? I feel it's twice the size it usually is. |
| D : |
Yes, I'm positive. And you don't have a fever or lump on your arm. |
| B : |
I swear the lump was there this morning and I feel very warm. And I was as sick as a dog
last night. |
| D : |
I'm sorry to break it to you , but you are a serious hypochondriac. First, you need to fix
this illness before you can fix anything else. |
| B : |
But I always feel ill. |
| D : |
You do not have pneumonia or cancer you just have a small cold. The next thing you'll tell
me is that you're pregnant. Take one tablet three times a day after meals and get plenty of
bed rest . You should feel all better in a few days.
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Vocabulary and Expressions
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- hypochondriac (someone who believes they are constantly ill)
- nauseous (stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit)
- to have a temperature (to have a fever)
- swollen (to enlarge abnormally)
- lump (a small irregular swelling)
- pneumonia (a serious disease in which the lungs are inflamed)
- cance r (a spreading growth in or on the body often causing death)
- to break it to you (to tell you)
- bed rest (to get rest in bed)
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Medical tests and terms
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- ( to take your ) pulse (a regular beating or throbbing)
- ( to take your ) blood pressure (pressure that the blood exerts on the wall of lood vessels)
- X-ray (to examine, treat, and photograph with X-rays)
- ( to ) sprain (twisting of a joint with stretching of ligaments)
- ( to ) dislocate (to displace a bone from its normal connection)
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Doctors' supplies
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- stethoscope (for listening to a patient's chest)
- thermometer (for taking someone's temperature)
- hypodermic needle (for giving injections or shots)
- tongue depressor (for holding down the tongue while examining the throat)
- scalpel (for making surgical cuts during an operation)
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