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UNIT 11 MEDICAL SPECIALISTS

PRE-READING ACTIVITY
You will read about different medical specialists in this lesson. Discuss the topic with your
teacher and classmates. Also, answer the following questions.
What is medicine?
What are the names of some diseases?
How can you prevent disease?
How many kinds of doctors do you know?

Medical Specialists

Doctors, nurses, and other medical people are all part of health care. They all work together to
give good medical care.
Doctors have two important jobs. First, they make sick people healthy. They often use machines
and new drugs to heal patients. Second, doctors try to prevent disease. They often give vaccinations
to stop disease. Vaccinations prevent diseases like smallpox, cholera, polio, and measles. Not many
people die from these diseases now. Vaccinations save many lives. Doctors also try to prevent
disease with good advice. They tell their patients to eat the right kind of food and to exercise daily.
Many doctors specialize in only one kind of medicine. For example, ophthalmologists are eye
specialists. They treat eye diseases and try to prevent blindness. Dentists take care of people’s teeth
and treat diseases of the mouth.
Some patients need operations. Surgeons use operations to take care of problems inside the
body. For example, there are many operations on the heart. Anesthesiologists are specialists who
help surgeons with operations. They put patients to sleep during surgery. Then the patients do not
feel pain.

Obstetrician are specialists who care for pregnant women. They check women before the birth
of their babies and deliver the babies. Pediatricians are physicians who care for children.

Family practice is a new specialization. A family doctor cares for the whole family. This doctor cares
for patients who have all kinds of illness. A family practice doctor takes care of babies and old people,
but the family physician usually sends very sick patients to other specialists.
Emergency medicine is another specialty. Most hospitals have an emergency room. People
sometimes have accidents at home or at work, or they sometimes become ill suddenly. Ambulances,
and sometimes helicopters, take people to hospital emergency rooms. Emergency specialists give
immediate treatment
There are many other medical specialists. These specialists, doctors, nurses, and other medical
people, all work together to help their patients. They not only heal people who are sick, but also
they try to prevent disease.

EXERCISES

What is the main idea?
The main idea is the general idea of the reading. It is usually at the beginning or the end of a
paragraph. In a long reading, it is usually in the first or last paragraph. Put an X beside the statement
with the main idea from “Medical Specialists.”
________ a. Vaccinations save many people’s lives.

________ b. Doctors are not medical specialists.
________ c. Medical specialists work together to help patients and prevent disease.
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