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Someone who is being treated by a doctor or is in a hospital. (noun)
Patient or Customer
Patient
A pain in the head. (noun)
Headache
A place, or shop, where medicines are kept, prepared and sold. (noun)
Pharmacy
A chair with wheels used to move a person who is unable to walk. (noun)
Wheelchair
To have a disease or health problem. (adjective)
Poorly
A person who answers telephones and makes appointments. (noun)
clerk or receptionist
Receptionist
A local doctor’s place of work. (noun)
Tele-medicine or Practice
Practice
To send air out of the nose often in a violent and loud way. (noun)
Usually there is a little noise but sometimes there is
a lot of noise!
Sneeze
A written note from a doctor saying what medicine is to be given to the patient. (noun)
Prescription.
When a doctor sends a patient to see a different doctor, often a specialist. (verb)
Refer
A pain that is often at a low level but constant, often in a joint. (noun)
Joint or Ache
Ache
A room in a surgery or hospital where patients wait before seeing the doctor. (noun)
Waiting room
The specific time and place of a meeting between people with a doctor. (noun)
You speak with the
Appointment
To stay in bed until better. (noun)
Bed Rest
To empty the lungs of air quickly and often noisily. (verb)
Cough
A type of medicine that is used to treat infections by bacteria. (noun)
Vicks Vaporub or Antibiotics
Antibiotics
To not have enough water in the body. (adjective)
Dehydrated
To not have enough water in the body. (adjective)
Cold
To look at the patient’s symptoms and decide what is wrong with them. (noun)
Diagnosis
An infection in the stomach from eating food that was not properly prepared (often not cooked enough). (noun)
Food Poisoning
The concept of how a person’s body is. (noun)
We have Mental/Physical/Social/Emotional.....
Health (noun)
Something to make an ill person better. (noun)
Medicine
A viral disease that causes a high temperature. (noun)
Flu
Something that causes a person’s health to be bad. (noun)
Illness
A pain in the head. (noun)
Headache