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, _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________ 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
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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___________________.