学术英语(医学)_Unit 1

Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Questions for discussion
• How do you interpret the title?
– neuron overload – juggling physician
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Topics for presentation
3 What are the good and bad things about Mrs. Osorio‘s conditions that run through the author‘s mind?
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Useful expressions • Good Things
– Blood tests done – Glucose a little better – Her blood pressure good but not great
Critical reading and thinking – Questions for discussion – Topics for presentation – Useful expressions – Difficult sentences
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• Language building-up – Signpost language – Formal English – Vocabulary test • Suggested answers
Brainstorm a list of words and expressions related to a doctor‘s life and practice.
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Lead-in
Additional activity
What do they mean for a doctor?
– a decent career – a noble calling – respectable – knowledgeable – under great pressure – underpaid – mistrusted – dangerous
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
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Text A
• • • • • • • • a 56-year-old woman somewhat overweight reasonably well-controlled diabetes and hypertension cholesterol on the high side without any medications for this not as much exercise as she should thinning of her bones on last DEXA scan stressful but good about keeping her appointments and getting her blood tests generally healthy
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Useful expressions
• • • • • • • • • • • start a bisphosphonate prevent osteoporosis experiencing just the usual stress of life lurking depression or anxiety disorder the depression questionnaire health maintenance her last mammogram PAP smear colonoscopy a tetanus booster qualify for a pneumonia vaccine
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Useful expressions
• The author was in moderate state of panic: juggling so many thoughts about Mrs. Osorio‘s conditions and trying to resolve them all before the clock ran down. • Mrs. Osorio made a trivial request, not so important as compared to her conditions. • Mrs. Osorio seemed to care only about her ― innocent— and completely justified—request‖: the form signed by her doctor. • The doctor tried to or at least pretend to pay attention to the patients while completing documentation. • Complaints that doctors don‘t listen might have other reasons than just doctors‘ neuron overload.
• Brainstorm
• Additional activity
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Lead-in
Questions to be answered
• What are the causes for complaints of doctors‘ being impatient and careless?
(communication skills)
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get her lab results check her mammogram report document the progress of her illnesses order the tests refill her prescriptions
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Topics for presentation 4 Describe the situation when Mrs. Ororio might send the author‘s delicately balanced three-ring circus tumbling down.
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Useful expressions • the diet-and-exercise discussion • not making eye contact with Mrs. Osorio
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Topics for presentation
2 Describe Mrs. Osorio‘s condition.
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Useful expressions
• Bad Things
– Her weight a little up – Her bones a little thin on the DEXA
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Useful expressions
• • • • • • • • • • • 20-min consultation glucose starting a statin liver enzymes normal five fruits and vegetables — diet choices 30 min of walking each day — exercise morning sugars compare to her evening sugars the nutritionist / her eye doctor / the podiatrist blood pressure add another BP med more pills
学术英语 医学
Academic English for Medicine
Unit 1
Doctors’ Life
Doctors are thought as noble, respectable, and caring, but it is really common to read or hear about the complaints of doctors’ being impatient and careless. What are the causes for such complaints? How can ordinary incidents influence the way doctors practice medicine? This unit explores doctors’ life from different perspectives so that you can understand them better.
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Unit Contents
Lead-in Text A
Text B Text C Listening Speaking Writing Get reading for Unit 2
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Lead-in
• Questions to be answered
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Useful expressions
• • • • • • • • • • • • • in my practice / in a medical practice overweight diabetes hypertension cholesterol on the high side DEXA scan thinning of her bones / lower density stressful life keep her appointments blood tests generally healthy an average patient not excessively complicated
• What kind of life does a doctor lead? • How can ordinary incidents influence the way doctors practice medicine?
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Lead-in
Brainstorm
Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Topics for presentation
1 Do you agree that it is sheer neuron overload on the doctor side that leads to the complaint that doctors don‘t listen? • neuron overload • patients‘ high expectations • mistrust and misunderstanding between the patients and physician