How to Talk About Illness and Medicine in English
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- In this lesson, you can learn how to talk about illness, medicine and healthcare in English.
You’ll learn how to deal with a visit to the doctor’s office in English, how to talk about different healthcare systems, how to talk about going to hospital in English, and more. Want more practice with your English speaking? Choose one of our certified English teachers to help you in online speaking lessons: bit.ly/ooe-teac....
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Contents:
1. At the Doctor's Office 0:48
2. Prescribing Medicine and Giving Advice 3:26
3. How Healthcare Systems Work 6:43
4. In Hospital 10:26
5. Talking About Recovery 13:13
This lesson will help you:
- Understand how you can communicate with a doctor in English if you have to go to the doctor's office.
- Get useful phrases and vocabulary to talk about medicine in English.
- Learn how healthcare systems work in English-speaking countries like the UK and US.
- See what kinds of English phrases for the hospital you can use to communicate if you have to stay at a hospital in an English-speaking country.
- Talk about recovery after an injury or illness in English with helpful vocabulary.
- See example conversations people might have when talking about illness and medicine in English.
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Health insurance is starting everywhere in Pakistan, well we call it 'sehat card' especially means 'health card'.
1. Do most people use public healthcare, or is it more usual to buy private insurance?
There's no private health insurance in my country, it's just public health insurance, and almost people are provided it for free, so it's more usual to use public health insurance.
2. Are public healthcare high-quality and reliable? Why or why not?
I think it's just right for hospitals which locate in cities. They have high-quality doctors and equipments. But in the countryside, the healthcare workers are not very qualified, and the equipments here are really poor as well.
3. Are all residents entitled to free public healthcare, or are there restrictions?
No, not at all. You are only free if you have insurance, but insurance will not be responsible from A to Z for a big operation which costs a considerable amount, you still have to pay a part for that.
Hi Thien. Thanks for watching this lesson and sharing your response. Here are some tips:
1) '...in my country; it's just public health insurance...' or, '...in my country. It's just public health insurance...' not, 'in my country, it's just public health insurance...'
2) '...hospitals which are located in cities...' not, '... hospitals which locate in cities...'
3) '...and equipment,' not, 'equipments.'
Hope this is useful for you!
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Thanks for sharing your response, Kamol! Excellent writing. My only suggestion is, it's not necessary to capitalize each item after the colon besides the first letter if you choose. '...booth: press play, listen, pause, speak, play again...'. Hope this helps you!
Today I would tell you about a disorder that I had. This is dengue fever . I had it when I was 7 years ago. Firstly, I got headache and fever. So I went to public healthcare and they gave a prescription. However, these medicine did not help me . After I went to hospital and doctor diagnose me had dengue.Therefore , I feel so worried. I had to stay overnight in hospital. After 6 days , I didn’t get fever and headache also eyes pain. I was discharged . However , I would get some strength back in a few weeks.
Thanks for sharing, Tram. Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) 'Today I will tell you about...' not, 'would'.
2) It's more common to refer to dengue fever as a 'disease' and not a 'disorder'.
3) '...I got a headache...' not, '...I got headache...'
Hope this helps you!
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Not most people use public healthcare, and it's more useful to buy private health insurance. Public healthcare isn't high-quality nor reliable because the public hospitals are not only poor and antique but also they aren't spacious and a lot. What's more, not all residents entitled to free public healthcare; there are restrictions.
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1- In my country Tajikistan maeby 90% of residences use public hospitals, but they have to pay for it.
2- It is depend on the Doctor, on some specialisation the doctors are very good and have good qualification but on thers no.
3- Not there any restrictions, because all have to pay.
Thanks for sharing, Abdullo! Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) '...maybe 90% of residents use...' not, '....maeby 90% of residences use..'.
2) 'It depends on the doctor,' not, 'It is depend on the Doctor'.
3) Did you mean 'There are not any restrictions,' or, 'There are restrictions,' for #3?
Hope this is useful for you!
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I am looking knowledge on Determiner (Article, PA,DP, Cardinal and ordinal numbers, multipliers,fractions,intensifiers,other words,and Numerals adjectives .. etc.it may be called Pre,Central and Post determiner ,and what is their order in the sentence. 2. Why we use "The , PA, DP " determiner after All,and "Whole "after "The,PA,DA" . (All My,Our,These The & The,My,Our,These Whole) Please help me to understand the same. Regards,
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Thank you for the very good lesson. Could you please correct my speaking below:
1. Do most people use public healthcare or is it more usual to buy private health insurance?
In my country, most people don’t use public healthcare. It is not more usual to buy private health insurance. People will go to any private doctor or clinic to check if they feel ill or not well. If something serious happen, they will go directly to the hospital
2. Is public healthcare high-quality and reliable? Why and why not?
No, it is not. The public healthcare’s quality is very poor. People don’t have enough bed to stay. Further more, the quality of medicines is not good and reliable. And the health care workers are not professional and qualified.
3. Are all residents entitled to free public healthcare, or are there restrictions?
No, they are not. It is our wishes. Only the people who have the job and their companies are forced to buy insurance for their workers. Or some people who work for the government are having insurance. And some other people can buy insurance themselves. The rest of people don’t have any insurance.
Great, Quynh! Thanks for sharing. Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) 'It is not more common to buy private health insurance,' not, 'more usual'.
2) 'If something serious happens...' not, 'happen'.
3) '...don't have enough beds to stay in,' not, '...don’t have enough bed to stay'.
Hope this helps you!
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Hi, thank so much for the video. Sometimes, the doctor ask about score pain, like this : ( I think ...) If you were to give a pain score from 1 to 10, 1 being a nuisance and 10 unbearble pain, what grade would you give
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Last year, one of my friend had an accident. He was sent to E/R immediately for an operation. After that, he was kept in hospital for about one month. He could not stand stuck in the room for too long, so I came to visit him every alternative days to walk him around the hospital yard. The visiting time was two hours, so it was enough for us to talk all gossips. Actually, he recovered quite fast, he asked doctors to be discharged earlier but they said it was impossible.
Another great answer, Diana! Here are some tips:
1) '...not stand to be stuck in the room...' not, 'stand stuck'.
2) '...visit him every other day,' not, 'every alternative days'.
3) '...for us to gossip,' or, 'talk about all of the gossip,' not, 'talk all gossips'.
Hope this is useful for you!
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Most people usually prefer public healthcare but they go to private healthcare when they have no much time to wait for treatment.
Public healthcare is not as high quality as we need but they are reliable. Because they have not many facilities as we need for a cure.
Yes, All the residents are entitled to free public healthcare. There is no restriction for that.
Thanks for sharing your response, Neha. Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) '...when they don't have much time...' not, '...when they have no much time...'
2) '...reliable because they...' not, '...reliable. Because they...'
3) '...they don't have many...' not, '...they have not many...'
Hope this helps you!
Hi, Oli! Can you tell me if your colleague is British?
Her accent seems to BE full of 'r'. This doesn't occur in British English. Where is her accent from? Good job! Cheers.
Hi Antonio. Thanks for watching the lesson! We're glad you enjoyed it. Stephanie has an American accent.
Yeah! Most people in my country use Public Health Care. It's reliable but not quite high-quality. You can get a health checks in general but you need to pay for some specialized health checks. The medicine you receive is kind of essential but not the best.
Thanks for watching and sharing, Antonio. Here are some corrections for you:
1) '...high quality. You can get...' not, '...high-quality, you can get...'.
2) '...but you need to pay for some specialized health checks,' not, '...but some specialized health check you need to pay'.
Hope this helps you!
@@Oxfordonlineenglish1 Thanks! I've already edited it. I’m practicing writing in English so I’ve made many mistakes. I have to review English vocabulary and grammar to correct them.
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This is common when learning another language! It's a good idea to practice more conversation to become more comfortable making sentences and using a variety of vocabulary. We have some lessons to help like this one: www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/speak-english-fluently. Conversation lessons with a teacher can also help you improve and catch your mistakes: www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/about-our-online-english-teachers.
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ın my country people generally use the public healthcare because private insurance or private hospitals are expensive.
Public healthcare is high quality because halthcare professionals are knowledgeable and experienced.However, since public hospitals are busy,you may have to wait in line for each procedure.
If you make minumum wage or higher,the instution you work for has to pay your ınsurance.you can also purchase private insurance,though. but if you have low income or no income the state gives you a green card. with this card you can examined and treated in public hospitals for free. but if you want to benefit from private hospitals you might have to pay high fees with this card. so this is a restriction.
Thanks for watching and sharing, Pelin. Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) '...use public healthcare,' not, '...use the public healthcare.'
2) 'or,' and, 'healthcare,' not, 'ore,' and, 'halthcare.'
3) 'If you make minimum wage or higher, the...' not, 'If you have minumum wage or more income,the...'
Hope this helps you!
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Hello, I am from Pakistan, over here , in some places its a copy of UK, and in some other places, people will select what they want to do. In our clinics, doctors always have a prescription and a pharmacy neighbored, but one thing bad is that they do not care about the age, they even give some ibuprofen tabs to 5-8 years children. I remember UK, because I have stayed there for 2 years, there was a very good protection. by the way i like how OOE teaches and it's content.
Excellent. Thanks for watching and sharing your response, Ayaan. Here are some corrections for you:
1) '...it's a copy of the UK,' not, '...its a copy of UK.'
2) '...but one bad thing is...' not, 'thing bad.'
3) '...they do not consider your age,' is better than, '...they do not care about the age.'
Hope this helps you!
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Hello. Thanks for lesson.Each district in my country has its polyclinic, which is free for residents.You can visit a doctor, who doesn't specialized in one area, like your GP. If you need further treatment she or he can refer you to another specialist, who works in the same polyclinic or refer you to go to a public hospital if you need more targeted treatment. If you are registered with a polyclinic it's cheaper than you go directly to a hospital. There aren't private health insurance in my country.
Thanks for sharing, Tamara. Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) '...doctor who isn't specialized...' or, '...doctor who doesn't specialize...' not, 'doesn't specialized'.
2) '...it's cheaper than going directly...' not, '...it's cheaper than you go directly...'.
3) 'There isn't private health insurance...' not, 'aren't'.
Hope this is useful for you!
@@Oxfordonlineenglish1 Hello teacher. A very useful lesson for us who live in the UK. I used to write specialze with (Z) but my British teacher was angry. He said this is American English and I have to write specialise with (S).
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In my country, Italy, and in particular in my region, public healthcare is like a dream. People can't afford private practice, so they are compelled to wait months or years before they can have an appointment. For example, I have a chronic thyroid condition, but my sooner appointment with a doctor is next June. But the symptoms are now.
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Thank you all for the big help you gave me, i am from Lima-Peru and the heath care system here is unefficient, slow and unreliable, not enough doctors and nurses and thw government dont give support and resources, i think our money is not being administrated as it should.
Nice response. Thanks for sharing. Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) '...here is inefficient,' not, 'unefficient'.
2) '...unreliable. There aren't enough doctors and...' not, '...unreliable, not enough doctors and...'.
3) '...the government don't give support...' not, '...thw government dont give support...'.
Hope this helps you!
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in my country Egypt , the health care is really bad and the public health care is kinda torture .. it's a deeply low quality , you can say there's no public health care in Egypt , if we make a comparison between Egypt and UK you can say we're living under the ground in Egypt..you can't imagine how many patients get to the doctor's office per one hour ( only one hour ) !! about 70 patients !! do you imagine that ? a 70 patients in only 60 minutes , do you what that means ? it means that the patient has only one minute to be checked and take the prescription , how come
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most people do not have private health care in the UK.
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In my country,if patients be taken to the hospital by the ambulance,there would be no choice for t hem to decide,because the ambulance takes them to the public ones. After GP diagnosis ,the patient could decide whether to stay there or not
Great, Haniyeh. Thanks for sharing. Here are some corrections for your writing:
1) '...if patients are taken to...' not, 'be'.
2) 'After a GP diagnosis,' not, 'After GP diagnosis'.
Hope this is useful for you!
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I hope that there are some exercises at the end of each lessonn
Hi Sohir. We have exercises at the end of almost every lesson! You can always find a link to the lesson with exercises in the video description. Here is this lesson's page: www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/talk-about-illness-medicine.
Oh yeah! This chanel is very good for me. I am thankful for this video and the conversation is very important when I want to go at hospital for example. Thanks for everthing. Good Luck.
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Thanks, Oli and Stephanie. This video really helps me a lot! sometimes it's really hard to describe some symptoms or talk about the illness. looking forward to more videos!
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In my country, most people use public health care and they use public health insurance to cover full or a part of arising fees. In my opinion, public health care is less quality than private places, but it is more affordable for people. I usually choose private hospital as I don't have so much time for waiting.
Nice response, Diana! Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) '...public health care is lower quality than...' not, '...public health care is less quality than...'.
2) '...so much time to wait,' not, 'for waiting'.
Hope this helps you!
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