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Speaking Test 8 – Medicine
Patient: You are 26 and have got your appendix removed at the hospital.
Two days after the operation, you are again at the hospital just because of
the drainage from the incision. You are a bit worried over this and you want to
know if it is going to affect your life in future
Task:
Explain to the doctor what problem you are facing (explain how it pains,
about fever, or redness or swelling around the incision, warmness around
incision etc).
Express that you are worried and that you want to resume your normal
activities sooner or ask your doctor how much time it will take for you to
recover and what you can do to recover sooner etc.
Doctor: There is a young boy who has recently got removed his appendix.
He was given discharge from the hospital on the very next day of operation
but after two days of operation, he was taken back to the hospital again
due to drainage form the incision. The patient is worried and wants to know
what he can do to get well sooner.
Task:
Explain to the patient what might have led to drainage from the incision
(explain to the patient that it is very rare and that it may happen due to
sudden movement or due to any sort of injury etc).
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Explain to the patient what diet can be better and what he can do to avoid this
in future.
Explain to the patient about the complications which are there due to this
unexpected drainage from the incision.
Explain to the patient that it will take a bit of time to heal again.
Advice the patient to take the medicine on time and the benefits of adopting
right diet plan etc.
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