English In Medicine - U7 - Task 3
Unit 7: Treatment Task 3 1 A hypertensive 50-year-old director of a small company DOCTOR: The condition you have requires to be controlled to prevent future damage to the body, especially the blood vessels. If it #39;s not controlled, you can have certain serious illnesses such as a heart attack or a stroke. Treatment is therefore to prevent illness developing because I #39;m sure that you don #39;t feel ill at the moment. You #39;ll have to take tablets, or medicine, but you #39;ll also have to modify some of your habits. For instance, you must stop smoking. 2 An insulin-dependent 11-year-old girl accompanied by her parents DOCTOR: Now Elizabeth, the trouble with you is that you #39;re not making a substance that you need to control the amount of sugar in your blood. If you have too much sugar or too little sugar, it #39;ll make you feel very ill and we #39;ll have to replace this each day. It means that you #39;ll have to have a jab because it doesn #39;t work properly if we give it to you in a tablet. Now your mother here will go with you to see the nurse and she #39;ll show you how to do it. Many other boys and girls, some much younger than you, soon learn to do it, so you needn #39;t feel frightened. 3 A 65-year-old schoolteacher with osteoarthritis of the left hip DOCTOR: This condition is really like the wear and tear of a hinge. The joint is becoming stiff and painful because it #39;s roughened by Inflammation. Fortunately, as you #39;re now retired, you #39;ll be able to modify your life so that it doesn #39;t trouble you so ...
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