Exercises. A day of a general practitioner (GP)

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A day of a general practitioner (GP)

The practice team

A typical GP practice employs receptionists. They are responsible for initial patient contact. The receptionists make appointments, take requests for repeat prescriptions, take messages from patients and other health care providers, file and scan documents into patients’ records. The practice manager has responsibility for finance and sometimes for IT. He/she supervises reception staff, hires locums, and helps to prepare the practice development plan. Practice nurses run asthma, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease clinics as well as one-to-one clinics for those who wish to give up smoking.

In addition to practice staff, GPs work with a number of health professionals.

· District nurses visit temporarily housebound patients, those who have recently been discharged from the hospital, to change dressings, such as ulcer dressings.

· Health visitors visit families to carry out check-ups on young children - particularly under-fives - to make sure they're healthy. Special attention is paid to families in need, such as those living in poverty. They also do baby immunizations.

· Midwives run clinics for antenatal patients.

· Physiotherapists provide hands-on treatment but also teach patients exercises they can do to improve their condition after an accident or operation.

Dr James works in a practice in a small market town, with three other family doctors. The surgery is located in the centre of the town and is shared by three practices. This is a typical working morning when she is not the duty doctor, responsible for emergencies and urgent problems.

8.00 am. arrival at the surqery

checking the ООНemail printout

checking for urgent and non-urgent messages

8.30 am checking up emails from the healthboard and

partners

preparation for surgery

8.30-10.15 am morning surgery(ten-minute appointments)

6 pre-booked lastweek

2 booked 42 hours ahead

4bookable on the day

10.50 -10.55 am checking with Reception for messages

sign, prescription and deal with repeat

prescription request

11.00-11.20 am coffee break in the conference room with colleagues

11.20- 11.30 am checking home visit requests and dividing up visits

with colleagues

11.30 am -1.00 pm home visits

1. The noun surgery has three meanings:

a) the building where GPs work -

The practice has moved to a new surgery on the High Street.

b) the time when GPs see patients -

Morning surgery is from 8.30 to 12.30.

c) the work of surgeons -

The patient needs urgent surgery on a burst appendix.

6.1 Complete the sentences.

1 Children, in years over-60s, and people with some chronic diseases do not have to pay

..................in the UK.

2 Patients with mobility problems may be unable to go out. They are............................

3 The average GP........................................is ten minutes long.

4 A........................................is someone who takes the place of a staff member who is on leave.

5 Treatment outside working hours is known as..................................one.

6.2 Make up word combinations matching verbs with nouns. One word can be used twice.

1. change, make, perform, refer, run, supervise, take

2. messages, staff, appointments, home visits, dressings, a clinic, a patient, minor surgery

6.3 What is the disease or illness being described in each case?

a) A condition where tissues die and decay as a result of bacterial action because the blood supply has been lost through injury or disease of the artery. Infected limbs may have to be amputated.

b) A condition where the lens of the eye gradually becomes hard and opaque.

6.4 Write a description, in English, of a disease or illness and see if your partner can recognize it…

6.5 Which member of a practice team would be responsible for each of the following?

1 Running a clinic for pregnant women

2 Teaching a patient how to strengthen his broken leg

3 Letting the GP know that a patient can't come to her appointment

4 Running a clinic for people who want to lose weight

5 Visiting a patient who has just returned home after a hernia operation

6 Carrying out check-ups on children in a poor neighbourhood

7 Organizing cover for an absent doctor

6.6 Describe a typical day for a GP (or any specialist) in Kazakhstan (or any other country).

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