Handout Medical Supplies and Tools

Activity 3. Match the comments with the supplies that are needed:
1. I can't catch my breath. a. table and head-rest paper
2. Prepare the examining table for the next patient. b. thermometer
3. We'll have to get a blood sample. c. oxygen mask
4. I need to sterilize the wound. d. hypodermic needle
5. We'll have to feed him with liquids. e. bandage scissors
6. Let's find out your weight. f. scales
7. I need to examine the patient in private. g. eye chart
8. Let's check your vision. h. antiseptic
9. Let's see if you are running a fever. i. IV bag
10. Can you cut this gauze for me? j. privacy screen


Activity 4.The sentences in Column A contain examples of useful verbs in medicine. In Column Вthere are definitions of the verbs. Read the examples and match the verbs (in italics) withthe definitions. Then write the infinitive forms into the spaces in the definitions in ColumnB. The first one has been done for you as an example.

Column A: Examples

Column B: Definitions

1. After the accident the passengers were treated in hospital for cuts. 2. Nurses dressed the wounds of the accident victims. 3. He specialises in children with breathing problems. 4. She suffers from headaches. 5. She was vaccinated against smallpox as a child. 6. Some forms of cancer cannot be cured. 7. The calamine lotion will soothe the rash. 8. The doctor diagnosed appendicitis. 9. The doctor prescribed a course of antibiotics. 10. The drug suppresses the body's natural instinct to reject the transplanted tissue. 11. The operation may endanger the life of the patient. 12. The surgeons decided to operate as the only way of saving the baby's life.

a) diagnosemeans to identify acondition or illness, by examining theperson and noting symptoms b) _________ means to to use medicalmethods to cure a disease or help asick or injured person to recover c) _________ means to make someonehealthy d) _________ means to put someone orsomething at risk e) _________ means to give instructionsfor a person to get a specific dosageof a drug or a specific form oftherapeutic treatment f) _________ means to study or treatone particular disease or oneparticular type of patient g) _________ means to have an illnessfor a long period of time h) _________ means to treat a personfor a condition by cutting open thebody and removing a part which isdiseased or repairing a part which isnot functioning correctly i) _________ means to introducevaccine into a person's body in orderto make the body create its ownantibodies, so making the person immune to the disease j) _________ means to relieve pain k) _________ means to clean a woundand put a covering over it l) _________ means to reduce theaction of something completely, e.g.to remove a symptom or to stop therelease of a hormone

Activity 5.These sentences all give very good advice, but they have been divided into separate halves. Match the half-sentences in Column A with the half-sentences in Column B to make 14 sentences which are correct, complete and true.