Reading of the text: When patients are admitted to the hospital first of all they are received by a nurse on duty at the reception ward Those patients who are to be hospitalized have already received the direction from the polyclinic. The nurse on duty fills in patients case histories in which she writes down their names, age, place of work, occupation, address and the initial diagnoses made by a doctor at the polyclinic. Then a doctor on duty examines the hospitalized patients and gives his instructions what department and wards the patients are to be admitted to. At the in-patient departments of a hospital life begins early in the morning. The nurses on duty take the patients temperature, give them intramuscular and intravenous injections, take stomach juice for analyses, apply cups and give all the prescribed remedies in the doses indicated by the ward doctors. The nurses keep all the drugs in special drug cabinets. All the drugs have special labels. The names of drugs indicated on them. Patients are not allowed to take the medicine themselves because some drugs are poisonous, the overdosage of some other drugs may cause unfavourable reactions and even death. At about nine o clock in the morning the doctors begin the daily rounds during which they examine all the patients After the medical examination the doctors administered the patients different procedures electrocardiograms are taken, laboratory analyses of blood, urine and gastric juice are made Some patients are administered bed regimen, others are allowed to walk, some are to follow a diet to relieve stomach ache or prevent unfavourable results in case of stomach troubles. All the doctors always treat the patients with great attention and care. There is no doubt that such a hearty attitude of the doctors to the patients helps much in their recovery

1.Translate the word combinations To be admitted to the in-patient department, to fill in a case history, to make an initial diagnoses, to estimate the initial findings, to apply a new method of treatment, overdosage of a drug may cause a death, to take the patients temperature, to give injections, to take an electrocardiograms

2.Group the words in pairs which have the same meaning A disease, to start, not to be able to do smth, to hospitalize, a medicine, a polyclinic, a hospital, to produce, a response, a trouble, a reaction, to begin, to cause, in-patient department, to admit to the hospital, a drug, an out –patient department, to fail to do smth.

3.Choose the sentences corresponding to the text : a) At the in-patient department the nurses give the patients intramuscular and intravenous injections, b)at the in –patient department the ward doctors give the patients intramuscular and intravenous injections, 2. A) Some patients are to follow a diet to decrease weight. B) some patients are to follow a diet to relive stomachache. 3. A) the ovedosage of some drugs may cause a considerable change in the white blood cell count. B) The overdosage of some drugs may cause unfavourable reactions.

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