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Example: I’d like to be able to help my relatives and it gives me much

satisfaction.
I’d rather have flexible working hours in a hospital than stay in the office from 9to 5.

- holidays

- satisfaction

- salary

- additional benefits

- leisure time

- family practice

- to practice medicine

- to examine a patient

- massage

- perform duodenal intubations

- apply mustard plasters

4. Study new words


  • enter - поступать

  • adult - взрослый

  • responsibility - ответственность

  • hostel- общежитие

  • relatives - родственники

  • society - общество

  • educational establishment – образовательное учреждение

  • to be founded – быть основанным

  • highly-trained – высоко подготовленный

  • Nursing Affair – Сестринское дело

  • provide - обеспечивать

  • houses for aged people – дома престарелых

  • Curative Affair – лечебное дело

  • Emergency ambulances – станции скорой мед. помощи

  • obstetrician - акушерка

  • pregnant - беременная

  • spreading of infections – распространение инфекции

  • take measures – принимать меры

  • harmful influence of the surroundings – вредное воздействие окружающей

среды

5. Fill in the gaps with the new words from Ex. 1


  • Last year I finished school and ...........this institute.

  • I don’t like to live in the ......and that’s why returned to ... .

  • Our school........in 1964 and is one of the oldest ........

  • I’ll never send my parents to ......

  • Nick wants to become a .......nurse to work at this polyclinic

  • School library ........pupils all books.

  • Because of .......sanitary doctors had to..... .

6. Translate sentences using the words from Ex.1


  • Я решила поступить в мед. училище и стать высоко профессиональной медицинской сестрой.

  • Многие студенты живут в общежитии.

  • Мы должны принять меры, чтобы остановить распространение инфекции.

  • Многие мои родственники работают в больницах .


7. Read the text and do the tasks after the text
Every year many young people who really care for medicine enter our medical college and become students. A new life begins – it is the life of the adult who has the responsibility for all his actions before the society. Some students live at the hostel, others – with their relatives. Many students get stipends.

Our medical college is one of the oldest educational establishments of the region with its own traditions. Its graduates are considered to be the most highly trained specialists of the region. There are 4 departments in our school.

“Nursing Affair” department gives qualification of a nurse of general practice. A medical nurse is a chief assistant of a doctor who provides uninterrupted medical help, including preventive and rehabilitation measures. Our graduates work in the polyclinics, hospitals, kindergartens, schools and houses for aged people.

“Curative Affair” department is for those who want to become doctor’s assistants. A doctor’s assistant of general practice is a highly-trained specialist who works independently in the polyclinics, emergency ambulances and hospitals. His main task includes prescription and performance of preventive, curative and diagnostic measures. The graduates of this department are waited for at the stations of emergency medical help, in the country-side hospitals and in the military hospitals.

“Pharmacy” department offers qualification of a pharmacist. Pharmacy is the science which treats of medicinal substances.

The students work much in classes and libraries. As the students want to become not ordinary but good professionals they must pay attention to modern medical literature.


8. Say which skills and abilities from the list you’ve made in Ex.2 are

necessary for each specialty

9. Ask seven special questions trying to know more information than

having been mentioned in the text

10. Look at the picture. Students are at the Information Sciences

lesson. Match a student and his description.





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Jane is interested in the subject because she cares for Information Sciences.

Paul is frightened. He spent his time at the disco last night so he is not ready for

the lesson. Nick is depressed because he doesn’t know the matter of discussion.

Mary is excited because she has found the answer to her question.

Ann is bored. She doesn’t take interest in the subject.
And you? Tell what makes you interested (bored, excited, frightened, depressed) in the medical school.

And how is Information technology connected with medicine?

11. Life of the medical school student is connected not only with

medicine and medical subjects. Students participates in activity of

different groups and societies.

Look through the steps of the table below and write the purpose

of each step taking into consideration work of your medical

school.



Step

Purpose

Forming an initiative group




Applying for grants




Forming a working group




Setting up a volunteers group




Implementing the project






12. Prove that at the medical college it is necessary to study not only

special medical subjects. Discuss your choice with other students.
13. Make the list.

What qualities\ abilities and conditions help you to be more successful as a future medical worker.

Using What You’ve Learned
a) Make a description of yourself as a student of the medical

school.

b) Think of ways to improve yourself as a student of the medical

school.

Language support:
* that I will always

* I promise * that under no circumstances will I } be

* I solemnly undertake * that I will never do

* I swear * to be ... (adj.) ...
* I will * (to) be

* (to) do }...

* I’ll do my best * (to) become


Раздел II

Development of Medicine.

Topic 2. Early Medicine.
1. Share your information by answering these questions about the

picture


  • What is shown in the picture?

  • Are any of these treatments useful?






2. Study new words
- recent times - недавние времена

- barbers -парикмахер

- a guessing game - (зд.) нечто приблизительное

- remedy -лекарство

- poppy juice -сок мака

- animal fat -животный жир

- poor eyesight -плохое зрение

- bleeding -кровотечение

- a common practice -общая практика

- to let out ‘bad blood’ -выпускать«плохую кровь»

- skull -череп

- wound -рана

- to relieve pressure -облегчать давление

- incurable -излечимый

- drill -сверлить

- reliable science -надёжная наука
3. Read the text and say which of the following is true:
1 People believe medical myths

2. Medicine was a reliable science

3. Dangerous medical practices were commonly used.

4. There was nothing unusual in medicine of the Middle Ages.

5. Astrology and medicine were equal

Medicine and pharmacology are two sciences that have changed a great deal in recent times. Long ago, medicine was a guessing game. Medical care was given by doctors, pharmacists, and even barbers! All of them experimented freely on their patients, who often died as a result.

Early pharmacists depended on plant remedies that had been developed over the centuries. One popular remedy during the Middle Ages was poppy juice, which contains opium (a narcotic). Other remedies were animal fat and even crocodile blood, which was considered to be a "cure" for poor eyesight.

Other common practices were dangerous and sometimes fatal. For instance, bleeding patients to let out "bad blood" often resulted in the death of the patient. A common practice that was equally dangerous involved drilling a hole in the patient's skull. Perhaps this was done to treat head wounds or to relieve pressure inside the head.

People whose diseases were "incurable" often looked for help from the spirit world, astrology, and magic. Astrology, which was valued as a method of diagnosis, was even taught in many medical schools.

Medicine has become a reliable science only in recent times. Even now, however, it still involves a certain amount of experimentation.

4. Find in the text the following:

1. The description of fatal treatment

2. The things that can struck modern people

3. Drilling a hole in the patient’s skull was approved.

Work with grammar

Clauses with Who and Which. Replacement of Subjects

To form adjective clauses from simple sentences, who may replace subjects that refer to people. Which may replace subjects that refer to things or ideas.

Examples:
Two simple sentences: The physician was Dr. Andrews. He treated the

patient.
One complex sentence with WHO: The physician who treated the patient

was Dr. Andrew.

5.Use the cues to form sentences with adjective clauses with who.

Add a or an where necessary and use appropriate singular or

plural verbs in your adjective clauses.

examples: orthopedist / treat bone, joint, or muscle problems

An orthopedist is a doctor who treats bone, joint, or muscle problems.

orthopedists / treat bone, joint, or muscle problems

Orthopedists are doctors who treat bone, joint, or muscle problems.
1. radiologist / read / X-rays

2. surgeons / perform / operations

3. pediatrician / take care of / children

4. ophthalmologist / treat / diseases or injuries of the eye

5. internists / specialize in / diagnosis and treatment of diseases in adults

6. gynecologist / specialize in / functions and diseases of women

7. neurologist / take care of / patients with nerve or brain disease

8. psychiatrists / treat / mental problems
6. Use the following cues to form sentences with adjective clauses with

which (or that). Be sure to add articles where necessary.
example: rubber hammer / tool / be used for testing reflexes

A rubber hammer is a tool that is used for testing reflexes.
1. stethoscope / instrument / be used for listening to a person's heart

2. scalpel / instrument / be used for cutting during surgery

3. opium / narcotic / produce a feeling of great happiness

4. anesthetic / drug / put people to sleep before surgery

5. aspirin / drug / relieve pain

6. thermometer / instrument / measure temperature
7. Combine the following sentences about early medical practices with who or which. Make the second sentence of the two into an adjective clause when you combine them. Change words where necessary.
example: Some prehistoric people performed brain operations. These people lived in Europe in about 10,000 B.C.

Some prehistoric people who lived in Europe in about 10,000 B.C. performed brain operations.

These brain surgeons used simple knives. The knives were made of stone.

Many skulls have been found in Europe. The skulls had small holes cut into them.

The surgeons probably removed pieces of bone. They operated on the head.

In early times, however, some people went to magicians rather than doctors.

These people had physical problems.

People would ask for help from a magician. They thought spirits or magic caused

illness.

During the Middle Ages, some doctors used different cures. These cures did not treat

the body at all.

For example, a swordsman was not treated with medicine. The swordsman had been

hurt in a fight. (The sword was treated instead!)

Another remedy was to wear a card with the word "abracadabra" on it. This remedy

became very popular in the Middle Ages.

Clauses with Whose:

Replacement of Possessives
Whose may also be used to form adjective clauses. It does not act as the subject

of a clause. Instead, it replaces a possessive noun or adjective that modifies

the subject of the clause.

examples


Two Simple Sentences
One Complex Sentence with whose

The woman thanked the doctor. His treatment had cured her.
The woman thanked the doctor whose treatment had cured her.



8. Combine the following sentences with whose. Make the second
sentence into the adjective clause.

example: The villagers gave a gift to the pharmacist. His secret medicine had

cured their mysterious disease.

The villagers gave a gift to the pharmacist, whose secret medicine had cured their mysterious disease.

A person sometimes gets well unexpectedly. His or her will to live is very strong.

Another person might die unexpectedly. His or her belief in witchcraft is strong.

Some doctors can be successful. Their treatments are not always scientific.

Some people refuse to see a doctor. Their condition is serious.

People may be afraid of doctors. Their faith in modern medicine is not very strong.

Restrictive Versus

Nonrestrictive Clauses
In some cases, commas come before and after adjective clauses. Commas are used

with adjective clauses that give additional information. These clauses often modify

proper nouns (Dr. Nie, Athens, the Tower of London)or names of unique people,

places, or things (the sun, vitamin C, the equator). Who, which, whom, and whose

(but not that) may be used in these clauses. They are called nonrestrictive clauses.
In contrast, commas are not used with adjective clauses that specifically identify the
word(s) they modify. That may be used in this type of clause only; who, which,
, whom, and whose may also be used. These clauses are called restrictive clauses.

9. In the passage "Early Medicine" reread the sentences with
Adjective clauses. Try to explain why commas are or are not used
with each clause.


10. In the following pairs of sentences, underline the adjective clause.

Then indicate whether the clause gives essential or additional

information. Next, add commas where necessary.
example: Typhoid and cholera, which have been common problems

for thousands of years, have now disappeared from some

areas.

(Additional informationcommas are used.)

The bubonic plague which is a contagious disease is carried by rats.

This plague which was also called the "black death" killed half the population

of Europe in the fourteenth century.

Physicians who treated plague victims never found a cure for the disease.

During the plague, many people who touched the sick or the dead died after a

short time.

People who lived in major seaports were more likely to become plague victims.

Thousands of people died in Marseilles which was the major seaport.
11. Combine the sentences here and on the next page with who,

which, or whose. Change the second sentence into an adjective

clause. Be sure to use commas where necessary.
example: Mumps and chicken pox are not treated with antibiotics. They are diseases caused by viruses.

Mumps and chicken pox, which are diseases caused by viruses, are not treated with antibiotics.
1. Certain illness cannot be treated with antibiotics. These illnesses are

caused by viruses.

2. The ordinary cold is a viral infection. The cold is our most common

sickness.

3. A careful diet can be a good treatment for people. Their internal organs

do not function properly.

4. People can be treated effectively with drugs. These people suffer from

tuberculosis.

5. People must take hormone pills very day. Their thyroid glands have

been removed.

6. Many people take vitamin C every day. These people are trying to

avoid colds.

7. Antibiotics are chemicals. These chemicals are produced from

microorganisms.

8. Antibiotics can kill or control some bacteria. Some bacteria cause diseases.

9. Sir Alexander Fleming received the Nobel Prize in 1945. Hediscovered

penicillin.
12. Work in pairs and make two lists


What helped early pharmacists to treat

people


What helps modern medical workers

to treat nowadays




13. What in your opinion was the most dangerous in treatment

during the Middle Ages? Discuss it with your class mates

14. Read this extract from a medical newspaper article and be ready

to complete the mind map
Charaka (200 AD) the most popular name in Ayurvedic medicine was a court physician to Buddhist king Kaniska. Based on the teachings of Atreya, Charaka compiled his famous treatise on medicine, “Charaka Samhita”.Susruta of Benaras compiled his surgical knowledge in his classic 'Susruta Samhita' between 800 BC and 400 AD. Early Indians set fractures, performed amputations, excised tumours and repaired hernias.

Egyptian medicine dates from 2000 BC. The best known medical manuscript is

the Ebers Papyrus (1500 BC) which was found with mummy on the banks of Nile.

It contains 800 prescriptions with 700 drugs.

An early leader in Greek medicine was Aesculapius (1200 BC) whose daughter

Hygiea was worshipped as a goddess of health.

Hippocrates (460-370 BC) is described as father of medicine. He studied and

classified diseases. His famous oath is the basis of medical ethics of today. His

book Airs, Water and Places is considered a treatise on social medicine. He was

born in Greece.

Medical man of Rome (25 BC-50 BC) was Celsus who gave us the cardinal

signs of inflammation.

Another Roman medical scientist Galen (130-205 A.D.) was a pioneer of experimental medicine. He noted that diseases were due to three factors : (i) predisposing factors, (ii) exciting factors, and (iii) environmental factor, a truly modern fact. He was a medical dictator of his own time.

Arabs developed Unani system of medicine. Two arab physicians Rhazes (865-923) who differentiated between smallpox and measles and Avicenna (980-1037) who was the first to describe guineaworm.

Medicine was revived by Paracelsus (1490-1541) who publicly burnt the works of

Galen and attacked superstitions and dogma in medicine.

Fracastorious (1843-1553) enunciated the "Theory of contagion' and explained the

cause of epidemics. He became the founder of epidemiology.

Vasallus (1514-1564) did lot of dissection on human body and demonstrated

some of Galen's error.

Pare (1517-1590) revived surgery and became and father of modern surgery.

Fracastorius of Verona (1546) in his book on contagious disease pointed out that the agent of communicable disease was contagium vivum. He told that infection itself consists of minute particles, too small to be seen by naked eye. He further defined infection and expressed that infectious diseases were transmitted per contactum, by direct contact, per fonitem by fomites or inanimate objects.

A lot of

prejudice ……





The best known

Names ……



Modern medicine is based on …..





Early medicine




Avoid treating….





Knowledge of Early medicine….





If it were not for…..




We are obliged to remember…..

Using What You've Learned

Activity
a) Giving Definitions. In small groups, test your skills at a vocabulary game. The object of this game is for one person to describe people, places, objects, ideas, and so forth. The other people in the group must guess who or what they are. In this version of the game, the clues must include adjective clauses with that, who, which, or whose.

examples: a: I'm thinking of an instrument which is used to listen

to a person's heart.

b: A stethoscope.

a: I'm thinking of a physician whose specialty is treating children.

b: A pediatrician.
b) Read the two opinions on Early medicine.
Which of them do you share?
1.Early medicine is full of prejudices. And it must be excluded from modern
medicine.
2. Early medicine is a basis of modern medicine.

Join a group supporting one of the opinions. Add more arguments
to your part of the chart.

Topic 3. Medical Myths.
1. What are “medical myths”? How do such myths originate?

Share your ideas and opinions about the picture by answering

these questions


  • What is shown in each part of the drawing?

  • Does your culture have similar myths?






2. Study new words


  • bubonic plague -бубонная чума

  • to cause - вызывать, быть причиной

  • arrow - стрела

  • roasted onion - жареный лук

  • aching ear - больное ухо

  • a growth on the eyelid -нарост на веке

  • misconceptions - неправильное представление, недоразумение

  • to catch a cold - простудиться

  • chill - дрожать

- germ -микроб

3. Make the plural form of the nouns and translate them. What origin

do some of the words have?
Earache, century, bacterium, germ, virus, cold, faith, people.
4. Read the text and do the tasks after the text
In the past, people believed a number of medical myths that we laugh at today. During the Middle Ages, for example, many people believed the bubonic plague was caused by arrows that Christ had shot. In the eighteenth century England, even people whom others considered sophisticated had faith in strange remedies. They believed they could cure an earache by sleeping with a roasted onion in the aching ear. The same people thought a growth on the eyelid could be cured by rubbing it with the tail of a male cat.

Since then, we have learned many things: bubonic plague is caused by bacteria, roasted onions cannot cure earaches, and cats do not cure growths. Nevertheless, there are medical myths that people still believe today. There are many misconceptions about the common cold, for example. People believe they will catch a cold if they sit in a draft or become chilled. Yet, we know a cold is due to a virus which is passed on through personal contact with people who have the germ. There is no myth about this!

5. Make these sentences interrogative and give an emotional colour

using the phrases To be honest…, It makes me feel…, Not to

mention the fact that…., Contrary to popular belief…., I feel very

strongly that…..
1. Many diseases are caused by bacteria.

2. We have learned about bacteria and germs.

3. People believed a great number of medical myths.

4.There were many misconceptions about origin of bubonic plague.

5.We know that virus passes from one sick person to another.

Work with grammar
Clauses with That and Which: Replacement of Objects

That and which may replace objects of verbs to form adjective clauses. Which refers

To things or ideas. That may refer to things, ideas, or people ,although who(m) is

Generally preferred for people. That may be used only in restrictive clauses (clauses

Without commas) and is preferred in these clauses. Both that and which can also be

omitted from restrictive clauses.

Examples
Two simple Many people believe in predictions.

Sentences Astrologers make them.
One complex Many people believe in predictions that (which)

Sentence with astrologers make.

That or which.
One complex Many people believe in predictions astrologers make.

Sentence with

No relative

Pronoun.
Clauses with Who(m): Replacement of Objects Who(m) may replace

objects of verbs to form adjective clauses. Who(m) refers to people. In this type of

clause, whom is correct and preferred in formal English. However, who is very

frequently used,especially in conversation. Both who and whom can also be omitted

from restrictive clauses.
examples

Two simple The woman believed the astrologer. She had consulted him.

Sentences.

One complex The woman believed the astrologer who(m) she had consulted.

Sentence

With who(m).
One

Complex The woman believed the astrologer she had consulted.

Sentence

With No

Pronouns.

6. Underline the adjective clauses in the passage “Medical Myths”.

Indicate whether the clause is restrictive or nonrestrictive. Also

note whether the subject or the object of the original clause has

been replaced.

7. Add adjective clauses to the sentences. Use commas where
necessary. In sentences with restrictive clauses ( without commas ),
write both possibilities: using the relative pronoun and omitting it.
Remember that you cannot omit the relative pronoun from a
nonrestrictive clause.
example: Every society has myths, (which people believe in)

Every society has myths which people believe in. Every

society has myths people believe in.


  1. Many societies have a spiritual healer or magician, (whom everyone asks for medical advice)

  2. Medical practices differ from culture to culture, (that superstitious people believe in)

  3. Copper bracelets are also worn as jewelry, (which many people wear to cure arthritis)

  4. Amulets are necklaces, (which some people wear to prevent disease)

  5. One belief is that chicken soup will cure any illness, (that many Europeans and Americans have)

  6. In the past, the color red was never used in sick rooms, (which some cultures considered unlucky)



8.Combine the following sentences by using that, who(m),or which.

Use commas where necessary. For each sentence, write all

possible combinations. Then tell which sentences preferred in

formal English.
example: Many cultures still have healers or magicians. Sick people consult the healers or magicians.

Many cultures still have healers or magicians whom sick people consult. (Preferred in formal English.)

Many cultures still have healers or magicians who sick people consult.

Many cultures still have healers or magicians that sick people consult.

Many cultures still have healers or magicians sick people consult.

There are many medical myths. Even educated people believe them.

A common saying is "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Mothers repeat this saying to their children.

Most of us think of doctors as special people. We can trust doctors with our most personal problems.

In many places there are no doctors. Sick people can consult doctors.

In my town there was one old woman. Everyone asked her about their health problems.

This woman always made herbal tea. She gave the tea to the sick.
9. Use the following cues to form questions with adjective clauses

beginning with who(m), which, or that. Work in pairs and take turns
asking and answering the questions. Many answers are possible.
example: medicine / you take most often
a: What is the medicine that you take most often?

b: Aspirin.

  1. doctor / you usually visit when you're sick

  2. foods / you eat when you have the flu

  3. fruit / you eat most often

  4. meat / you like the best

  5. mineral / you should take when you feel tired

  6. person / people in your family consult when they need medical advice

  7. food / you eat to live a long life

  8. food / people eat to have healthy hair and nails


10. Following the example as a model, use the cues to write definitions.

Add connecting words, articles, prepositions, and any other necessary

expressions.
example: flu / illness / many people get / in the winter

The flu is an illness that many people get in the winter.

  1. sugar / food / people eat for quick energy

  2. onion / food / some people eat to live longer

  3. black / color / Western societies associate with death

  4. mushrooms / plants / many people believe have mysterious powers

  5. storks / birds / many children believe deliver babies

  6. thirteen / number / many people believe is unlucky


11. Make up sentences of your own using the following.

To become chilled, to have germ, to catch a cold, to cure different diseases, to be caused by bacteria, through personal contact, misconceptions about.

12. Work in pairs and discuss the following

1.What problems do the medical myths cause ?

2.What are the roots of these problems?

3.Have you ever met people who believed different myths?
Exchange your impressions.


13. In groups discuss these statements and express your opinion by
giving your arguments. Try to persuade your opponents


Spiritual healers and magicians exist nowadays and many people consider them to be very helpful.



Only well-qualified medicine-workers can treat people


Using What You've Learned

Activity 1.

Comparing Traditional Beliefs.
Are there foods that people believe have special effects? For example, are there foods that make people live longer, have more children, see better, and so forth? Discuss these questions in small groups. Find out if there are foods that are recommended for a certain purpose in more than one culture. Does science support the idea that these foods are effective for these particular purposes?
Activity 2.
Describing Myths and Superstitions.
This activity concerns several "medical myths" and folk remedies that people have believed in. Look at the list of medical problems. Do you know any medical myths about their causes or cures? Where did you hear about them? In small groups, share your stories and information.

colds skin rashes

flu allergies

rheumatism headaches

hiccups depression

Topic 4. Changes in Medical Care
1. What do you know about medical care in other countries?

Share your ideas and experience by answering these questions

about the picture.


  • What is sown in each picture?

  • Why is hospital care so expensive today?








2. Study new words.
- expensive equipment -дорогое оборудование

- hospital stay - пребывание в больнице

- discovery - открытие

- facilities - оборудование

- bulb - лампа

- cardboard - картон

- guess - догадываться

- currant - электрический ток

- penetrate - проникать

- metal salts - металлическая стружка

- fracture -перелом

- to destroy cancer cells -разрушать раковые клетки

- laboratory assistant -лаборант

- available medical care -доступная мед. помощь

- health insurance -страховка

- private -частный

- small-pox -оспа

- typhus -тиф

- scarlet fever -скарлатина

- measles -корь

- to be widely spread -быть широко распространённым

- to be established -быть основанным

- disease prevention -предотвращение болезни

- scientific -научный

3. What do the words below mean in Russian?
Try and find a purely Russian equivalent


  • advance

  • bring back

  • competitive field

  • continued progress

  • house-calls

  • medical field

  • protein

  • through exposure to

  • unthinkingly

  • unwillingly


4. Study the meaning of the underlined words


    1. Recent advances in medicine have raised moral questions.

    2. The hospital has installed advanced equipment at enormous expense.

    3. The World Health Organization has done a lot to advance medical problems and their solution.

    4. Professor was teaching a course for advanced students of the Medical Academy.

    5. He has received an advance on his salary.



5. Which of these questions from the list below you can answer

before reading the text?
1. How has medical science changed?

2. How is the physician’s office equipped?

3. Why do specialists work together?

4. How much time do the patients stay in a hospital?

5. What is the result of medical technology?

6. Read the text and say which of the questions from Ex. 2 you can

answer after reading.
Medical care has changed greatly since the days when the family doctor treated all family members for every type of medical problem. Today's physician is usually a specialist who treats only problems within his or her specialty.

Today's specialists often work together in a large group in order to share costs. The group will buy expensive equipment for its own offices rather than use hospital facilities. The physician's office usually has a laboratory where a variety of medical tests can be done. So, unlike the family doctor, who often visited patients at home, today's doctors normally see patients in their offices, where they can use specialized equipment.

Likewise, many changes are taking place in hospitals, where the cost of medical equipment and care is skyrocketing. Because of the high costs, patients now spend a limited number of days in the hospital, depending on their illness. Even new mothers, who used to have a five-to-ten-day hospital stay after the birth of their babies, are now being sent home in twenty-four hours.

Medical technology certainly has led to great advances in the diagnosis and cure of many illnesses. However, some people want to bring back the "good old days" when the family physician was also a family friend.


7.What was medical care like in the past? How is it different now?
Why? Are changes also taking place in our country? Why or why
not?
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