# Free English Class! Topic: Health Care and Medicine 👩‍⚕️💊🩺 (Lesson Only)

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Translation: zh-CN

[00:00] well hello and welcome to this English

[00:02] lesson about health care and Medicine in

[00:06] this English lesson I'll talk about all

[00:08] of the words and phrases you need to

[00:10] know to visit the doctor to go to the

[00:12] hospital even to just have a

[00:14] conversation about your health how

[00:17] you're feeling if you're feeling ill or

[00:19] sick or maybe you've hurt yourself

[00:20] somehow in this lesson we'll talk about

[00:24] some of the things you need to know in

[00:26] order to be able to talk about that I'm

[00:29] Bob the Canadian I do these lessons

[00:30] every Friday it's so good to be here to

[00:34] do this English lesson about health care

[00:36] and Medicine

[00:37] before we get started I did want to say

[00:39] a couple of things one there is a study

[00:42] pack for this lesson yes I'm probably

[00:44] going to mention this every Friday it's

[00:46] at bobthecanadian.com there's also a

[00:49] link in the description below if you

[00:51] want to go have a look there's crossword

[00:54] puzzles and all the slides and matching

[00:56] worksheets and all kinds of support

[00:58] materials that you can use to help

[01:01] yourself remember all of these words and

[01:03] phrases

[01:04] a doctor so the main person that you

[01:07] want to see if you're not feeling well

[01:09] or if you've hurt yourself would be the

[01:13] doctor uh the doctor is the person who

[01:15] went to school I think for seven years

[01:18] or more to learn about the human body to

[01:22] learn about diseases and illness and

[01:25] what to do if you break a bone a doctor

[01:28] is a very very smart person I think if

[01:31] you become a doctor you have to memorize

[01:33] a lot of things because you need to be

[01:37] able to talk to people and figure out

[01:40] what's wrong with them you might also

[01:42] when you visit see a nurse so a nurse is

[01:46] someone who has gone to school not quite

[01:49] as long as a doctor but is still very

[01:52] much a health care professional a nurse

[01:56] is probably going to be the first person

[01:58] you see if you make a doctor's

[02:00] appointment I don't know if you knew

[02:02] that when I go to the doctor I make an

[02:05] appointment

[02:06] and then I go and they call me in to the

[02:09] doctor's office and usually a nurse

[02:11] comes in first she takes my blood

[02:13] pressure she takes my temperature

[02:15] usually with a little thermometer she

[02:17] puts in my ear and she records a whole

[02:20] bunch of those things usually I have to

[02:22] step on a scale and then she usually

[02:25] asks me or he usually asks me what is

[02:27] wrong and they'll make some notes and

[02:30] then after a little while the doctor

[02:32] will come

[02:33] so the nurse is someone who once again

[02:36] is someone who has been trained to take

[02:39] care of people who have health concerns

[02:42] to figure out if they are sick to figure

[02:44] out if they're feeling pain somewhere

[02:47] where the pain is coming from and they

[02:49] work with a doctor in order to help you

[02:51] figure out what you need to do to feel

[02:54] better

[02:55] a surgeon is a special kind of doctor a

[02:59] surgeon is a doctor who does surgery so

[03:02] if you are someone maybe you have pain

[03:05] in your stomach maybe like me you have

[03:08] heart problems and they need to actually

[03:10] do surgery a surgeon will then there's

[03:13] no other nice way to say this they will

[03:15] open you up and they will fix you inside

[03:18] and then they will sew you back up again

[03:20] I'm making this uh motion here but when

[03:24] I had heart surgery they actually went

[03:26] in through the side I still have a scar

[03:28] right here they went in through the side

[03:30] to fix my heart so a surgeon

[03:34] is a special kind of doctor probably

[03:37] with more years of training for sure

[03:40] with more years of training who is able

[03:42] to do surgery and we also say able to

[03:45] operate

[03:47] and then we have what's called a

[03:49] specialist

[03:50] once one of our kids was jumping on the

[03:53] trampoline and they and she broke a bone

[03:56] in her leg and when we went to get

[03:58] x-rays the doctor couldn't see a

[04:01] fracture so he sent us to a specialist

[04:04] when we went to the specialist she could

[04:07] see on the X-ray a really minor break in

[04:10] her leg bone so a specialist is someone

[04:12] who does more training for a specific

[04:16] kind of illness or injury so let's say

[04:20] you have a sore back you might be sent

[04:23] to a specialist your family doctor your

[04:27] regular doctor what we also call a

[04:29] general practitioner might say hey I

[04:33] understand your back is sore but I think

[04:34] I need to send you to a specialist for

[04:37] further consultation so you might get

[04:41] sent to someone who knows more than your

[04:44] regular doctor someone called a

[04:46] specialist

[04:47] a paramedic is someone with medical

[04:49] training who goes to the place where the

[04:52] injured person is or the person who is

[04:55] sick usually in an ambulance uh to pick

[04:59] them up so a paramedic knows first aid a

[05:03] paramedic knows how to diagnose and

[05:07] treat you immediately

[05:09] at least enough to get you to a hospital

[05:12] okay so if you're in a car accident

[05:15] the paramedics will show up and they

[05:17] will help you into the ambulance and

[05:19] bring you to a hospital so a paramedic

[05:22] like a doctor and nurse has special

[05:25] training to figure out what's wrong and

[05:28] what you need and then they will quickly

[05:30] get you to a hospital to see nurses and

[05:33] doctors and like I mentioned they

[05:37] usually come in an ambulance or they

[05:39] come in an air ambulance so an ambulance

[05:42] is a vehicle

[05:44] specially designed to pick people up if

[05:47] they are having some sort of health

[05:49] problems or if they have been injured

[05:52] when I used to work on a construction

[05:54] site

[05:55] one day someone fell and injured

[05:58] themselves and we had to call the

[06:00] ambulance in my country you dial 9-1-1

[06:04] on your phone I know the numbers are

[06:06] different in other countries but we had

[06:08] to call 9-1-1 and an ambulance came to

[06:12] pick up the man who had fallen so the

[06:15] ambulance came it had its siren on

[06:17] and they put them in on a gurney and

[06:20] they put them in the ambulance and the

[06:22] paramedics drove away with him

[06:25] once a number of years ago there was a

[06:27] really bad car accident down my road and

[06:30] we noticed that the air ambulance had

[06:33] landed there an air ambulance is a

[06:35] helicopter that is designed to do the

[06:38] same job as a normal ambulance

[06:41] so both an air ambulance and an

[06:43] ambulance have all the right equipment

[06:46] in the back to take care of people as

[06:50] well as the right people to take care of

[06:52] you

[06:53] when the air ambulance comes though it

[06:56] usually means it is a very very bad

[06:59] accident

[07:01] Medical Center or clinic so when you go

[07:04] for a doctor's appointment

[07:07] sometimes you go to the hospital but

[07:09] sometimes you go to a medical center or

[07:12] to a clinic

[07:14] so in Canada at least if you are sick

[07:19] and it's not really severe it's not

[07:22] really bad you would probably just go to

[07:24] the medical center so let's say I had a

[07:27] stuffed up nose and a fever for three

[07:29] days in a row I wouldn't go to the

[07:33] hospital sorry I'm clicking too many

[07:35] slides here I would instead go to a

[07:37] but there are medical centers in most

[07:39] there are hospitals in all of our major

[07:43] cities

[07:46] towns and cities and in the city there's

[07:49] more than one Medical Center so usually

[07:51] it's easier to see a doctor if you have

[07:55] minor health problems at a medical

[07:57] center

[08:00] and then if you go you'll end up sitting

[08:02] in a waiting room a waiting room is a

[08:04] large room with lots of chairs if you

[08:07] have gone to see the doctor and if it's

[08:09] not an emergency you will probably have

[08:12] to sit in the waiting room sometimes you

[08:15] wait

[08:16] a long time in a wavy group it's not

[08:19] always fun to go to a waiting room to

[08:21] wait but eventually they will call your

[08:24] name and then you will go in to see the

[08:26] doctor or nurse

[08:28] doctor's office so when you go to visit

[08:31] the doctor you will eventually be in the

[08:34] doctor's office and the doctor's office

[08:36] is an office but it's also a room where

[08:40] there's usually a bed and there's

[08:43] um

[08:43] heart rate monitor and a stethoscope and

[08:47] all of the things the doctor needs to

[08:49] look in your ears and up your nose and

[08:50] whatever the doctor needs to do but you

[08:53] will definitely Beast

[08:55] eventually you'll be in the waiting room

[08:57] and they'll say okay the doctor will see

[08:58] you now and you will go to the doctor's

[09:00] office in which case you will probably

[09:02] see the nurse first and then the doctor

[09:04] in Canada

[09:06] a hospital

[09:07] so a hospital is a large building

[09:10] usually in a big city where they take

[09:13] care of people at a hospital you can go

[09:16] to a hospital to have a baby you can go

[09:18] to a hospital if your arm is broken to

[09:21] get a cast you can go to a hospital for

[09:23] heart surgery you can go to a hospital

[09:26] for many things all of the things that

[09:29] might be happening to you maybe you have

[09:31] cancer and you need to go for cancer

[09:33] treatment you would go to a hospital for

[09:36] that so a hospital is a place where

[09:37] doctors and nurses and surgeons work and

[09:40] it's a place where you go if you need

[09:42] health care

[09:44] and if something happens

[09:48] let's say you hurt yourself

[09:50] but someone can still bring you to the

[09:52] hospital so let's say on the farm I

[09:55] twisted my ankle really badly Jen would

[09:59] bring me to the emergency room we

[10:01] wouldn't call an ambulance if you're in

[10:04] a lot of pain but not too much pain

[10:07] and if you're not in any immediate

[10:10] danger usually you will go to the

[10:12] hospital and you will go to the

[10:14] emergency room so that's probably a good

[10:16] example I once broke my toe

[10:19] I I hit my toe and my little toe broke

[10:23] and then Jen took me to the emergency

[10:24] room and the doctor fixed it for me

[10:28] here's how the doctor fixed my toe

[10:31] she said

[10:33] um so I'm going to have to put your toes

[10:35] straight again in order to do that I'm

[10:37] going to have to pull your toe and move

[10:40] it over and I'm going to do that on the

[10:42] count of three and then before she even

[10:44] started counting she did it

[10:46] and then my toe was straight and they

[10:48] taped my toe to my other toe and I had

[10:50] to keep it that way for a few weeks so

[10:51] the doctor tricked me but I I think it

[10:53] was a good trick

[10:55] symptoms when you are not feeling well

[10:58] you have symptoms when you have a cold

[11:01] your nose is stuffed up when you have a

[11:03] the flu you might have a sore throat you

[11:06] might have a fever where you're feeling

[11:07] very very hot you might just feel really

[11:10] tired so when you have symptoms

[11:14] it can help the doctor or nurse figure

[11:16] out what's wrong with you you'll sit

[11:18] down and they'll say so how are you

[11:19] feeling what are the symptoms oh I have

[11:21] a stuffed up nose and my ear hurts and

[11:24] then they can use that to diagnose what

[11:26] is wrong so a diagnosis

[11:29] is when the doctor or nurse looks at

[11:31] your symptoms

[11:33] and uses those symptoms to figure out

[11:36] what is wrong so a simple one would be

[11:38] arm hurts and

[11:41] uh is not straight anymore symptom our

[11:45] diagnosis broken ARP sorry that was a

[11:48] bad example but if you were to go and

[11:51] say my symptoms are fever sore throat

[11:55] um difficulty breathing they might

[11:57] diagnose you the diagnosis might be that

[12:00] you have covet right so we all are

[12:02] familiar with those symptoms now

[12:04] and then they will recommend treatment

[12:07] so treatment might be to take

[12:10] antibiotics to take medicine treatment

[12:12] might be that they give you a needle and

[12:15] you're good to go so once they know the

[12:18] symptoms and then once they have a

[12:21] diagnosis then they will decide on what

[12:24] the treatment will be what they will do

[12:27] or what you'll need to do in order to

[12:29] feel better

[12:31] usually they just write you a

[12:32] prescription

[12:33] send you to the pharmacy and you get

[12:35] some pills depending on what's wrong

[12:38] with you but they decide on a course of

[12:40] treatment

[12:41] we're all familiar I think with what

[12:43] infection is this is when something gets

[12:46] into your body that isn't supposed to be

[12:48] there it's usually a bacteria so you

[12:51] might have a bacterial infection if you

[12:53] cut yourself I actually cut myself the

[12:55] other day it's very minor I don't know

[12:57] if you can see that

[12:59] um

[13:00] but I made sure that I washed my hands

[13:03] and I put some special cream there

[13:04] because I don't want to get an infection

[13:06] so an infection is when some other

[13:10] organism usually bacteria gets into your

[13:13] body and starts to multiply and then

[13:17] usually you end up with a fever at some

[13:18] point

[13:20] and then they will give you antibiotics

[13:22] so if my finger got infected they would

[13:26] say what are your symptoms and I would

[13:27] say well I cut my finger and now it's

[13:29] really big and red and they might say

[13:31] well the diagnosis is that you have an

[13:33] infection the treatment is that you will

[13:35] need to take antibiotics by the way we

[13:38] would call these capsules you can call

[13:40] them pills

[13:41] but as opposed to tablets these are not

[13:43] tablets these are capsules so an

[13:46] antibiotic is something that will kill

[13:49] the bacteria that is in your body so

[13:52] that is generally what they will

[13:54] prescribe if you have an infection

[13:57] the doctor or nurse might come in with a

[13:59] stethoscope this is a special tool they

[14:02] put in your in their ears not your ears

[14:04] they put in their ears and then they can

[14:07] listen to your heart rate sometimes the

[14:10] doctor or nurse will look at their watch

[14:11] and they'll see what your heart rate is

[14:14] or they'll listen to see if your heart

[14:17] rate

[14:18] if you have an irregular heartbeat so

[14:20] normally your heart goes like

[14:23] but maybe yours skips a beat or maybe it

[14:27] goes slow and fast slow and fast or

[14:29] maybe you have an elevated heart rate

[14:31] where your heart rate is higher than

[14:33] normal my heart rate right now is 94.

[14:37] that's pretty high for right now

[14:39] normally when I'm sitting it's around 65

[14:42] or 70 I have a very healthy heart rate

[14:44] but I think I'm excited to do this

[14:46] lesson

[14:47] stethoscope I should say it a few more

[14:49] times stethoscope try to say that word

[14:52] it is a challenge even for English

[14:54] speakers

[14:56] there's also something called blood

[14:57] pressure so I normally have average or

[15:01] below average blood pressure I have

[15:03] never had high blood pressure blood

[15:06] pressure is a measure of the pressure of

[15:08] your blood inside of your veins and

[15:10] arteries

[15:11] I think veins and arteries this isn't a

[15:13] medical Lesson by a medical professional

[15:16] but so take it with a grain of salt they

[15:20] will put a blood pressure cuff on your

[15:22] arm and then they will take your blood

[15:24] pressure either with a machine or

[15:27] sometimes the doctor will do it with

[15:29] their stethoscope and their watch

[15:30] they'll actually take your blood

[15:32] pressure as well or not their watch they

[15:34] have like a dial a pressure gauge I

[15:36] think

[15:37] so

[15:38] blood pressure when I was in the

[15:40] hospital they took my temperature and my

[15:43] blood pressure and blood sugar levels

[15:46] they all regularly

[15:48] um thermometer so a thermometer is a

[15:51] device that measures the temperature of

[15:53] your body

[15:54] if the temperature of your body is above

[15:57] I don't know 36 to 38 degrees is

[16:00] probably normal I should probably look

[16:02] that up normal

[16:05] body

[16:07] temp in Celsius

[16:10] here we go 37 Celsius so between 36 and

[16:14] 37.2 so what happens is if your body

[16:18] temperature if you take this thermometer

[16:21] and put it under your armpit or under

[16:23] your tongue we have one too that we can

[16:26] use to check our kids temperatures in

[16:29] their ear it will tell you your body

[16:33] temperature if it's 39 or 40 your you

[16:36] have a fever and that is not a good

[16:39] situation

[16:42] an x-ray so sometimes you've hurt

[16:45] yourself

[16:46] inside your body maybe a bone is broken

[16:49] maybe you hurt your finger or like me

[16:52] maybe you hurt your little toe I I'm

[16:54] pointing to this this is my pinky finger

[16:56] my toe is on my foot sorry if I'm

[16:58] confusing you

[17:00] um they might need to take an x-ray so

[17:02] you will go and they will put you in a

[17:04] room and push a button and then they'll

[17:07] see the bones inside of your body so an

[17:10] x-ray machine shoots x-rays through your

[17:12] body and it can go through the tissue

[17:15] but it can't go through the bones that's

[17:17] probably how it works I shouldn't try to

[17:19] describe exactly how these machines work

[17:22] anyways if you have a maybe you think

[17:26] you broke your leg or you think you

[17:28] broke your arm you will most likely get

[17:29] an x-ray and then they will see what is

[17:33] wrong with you where you have hurt

[17:35] yourself

[17:37] an ultrasound so this is similar to an

[17:41] x-ray except it uses sound instead of

[17:44] rays to look inside the body this is

[17:47] most commonly used for two things one if

[17:50] someone is expecting a baby you will

[17:52] often go for a few ultrasounds

[17:55] and they will use the ultrasound 1 to

[17:59] see the baby in the womb okay so when

[18:02] Jen was pregnant we would go for one or

[18:04] two ultrasounds during the pregnancy and

[18:07] they would say yep everything looks good

[18:09] and then we would be happy you can even

[18:11] see the heart beating on an ultrasound

[18:14] the other major use of ultrasound is for

[18:17] seeing internal organs the heart

[18:19] sometimes the stomach area the heart

[18:22] they can use an ultrasound to see the

[18:25] valves in the heart and to make sure

[18:27] that they are working properly and it

[18:29] works by sending sound waves into the

[18:32] body it's different than x-rays but

[18:34] still the same idea something used to

[18:38] get a little bit of a glimpse of what

[18:40] what is happening in the body

[18:44] weight and height this is a pretty

[18:46] common one too when you go to the doctor

[18:48] no matter what's wrong with me

[18:50] if I go to the doctor they want to know

[18:52] my weight and they want to know my

[18:54] height usually the nurse will take these

[18:57] measurements the nurse will say hey

[18:59] before the doctor sees you step onto the

[19:02] scale and he or she will record my

[19:04] weight and then they'll check my height

[19:06] It's usually the same machine when

[19:09] you're on the scale there's also a

[19:10] little thing

[19:11] that they can use to check your height

[19:13] they just want to see how you're doing

[19:16] and then sometimes my doctor says

[19:19] the graph for your weight keeps going up

[19:22] you need to make it go down my doctor is

[19:25] always concerned about my weight number

[19:28] one concern

[19:30] so a few slides here we have vaccination

[19:33] needle syringe and injection so a

[19:36] vaccination is a special kind of

[19:38] injection where they put something into

[19:42] you that helps your body build immunity

[19:45] to something many of us got vaccinations

[19:48] during covid to build up our immunity to

[19:51] covid so I think we're pretty familiar

[19:53] with vaccination

[19:55] they use a needle or syringe technically

[19:59] the needle is the sharp point on the end

[20:02] and the syringe is the bottom part but

[20:05] we kind of use these words

[20:07] interchangeably like the doctor fill the

[20:09] syringe and then gave me an injection or

[20:12] the doctor filled the needle and gave me

[20:14] an injection all of those will work

[20:18] and then injection I've used a few times

[20:21] this is when they I don't like talking

[20:23] about this where they put the needle in

[20:25] to your arm or maybe in your uh the one

[20:29] of the cheeks of your butt uh or maybe

[20:31] into the muscle on the leg there are

[20:33] different places where they put

[20:35] injections usually it's the shoulder

[20:38] where the injection goes but um never a

[20:41] fun time I always look away if I ever

[20:43] get an injection I look away I can't

[20:46] watch while I get an injection I feel

[20:49] like maybe I would faint if I did that

[20:53] blood test sometimes the doctor or nurse

[20:56] wants to know what's in your blood they

[20:59] can tell a lot about what's wrong by

[21:02] looking at your blood and you might need

[21:04] a blood test in order to do this they

[21:06] put a a rubber band around your arm you

[21:09] can see that my vein see my vein there

[21:12] they put a rubber band around your arm

[21:14] and then they put a needle into your

[21:16] vein and they take out blood send it to

[21:19] a lab

[21:20] it gets tested and they can figure out

[21:22] what's wrong with you so I used a few

[21:24] phrases there you go for blood work I

[21:27] use that phrase earlier it's a blood

[21:29] test they take blood you might say oh I

[21:32] have to go I have to go to the clinic

[21:34] because I need to take blood for a blood

[21:37] test

[21:38] vitals or Vital Signs you'll hear this

[21:41] quite often if you watch a TV show that

[21:43] takes place in a hospital vitals include

[21:46] all of the things they can measure your

[21:49] heart rate your temperature the amount

[21:51] of oxygen in your blood they hook you up

[21:54] to Little Machines like this one

[21:56] and this machine can kind of keep track

[22:00] of all of the things

[22:02] that they can measure easily again

[22:04] temperature heart rate blood oxygen

[22:07] level those are probably the biggest

[22:08] ones they even have ones that check your

[22:11] blood pressure every 10 or 15 minutes

[22:13] they'll put up blood pressure cuff on

[22:15] your arm and then every 10 minutes it

[22:18] will also squeeze your arm and the

[22:20] Machine will take your blood pressure

[22:22] so that is what we call vitals or vital

[22:25] signs

[22:27] intravenous sometimes they need to put

[22:30] something into your bloodstream directly

[22:32] not an injection they need to put like

[22:35] maybe saline or some other kind of

[22:38] medicine into you and then they will put

[22:42] a needle in your arm or somewhere else

[22:44] maybe your hand and they will hang a bag

[22:46] up and it will drip

[22:48] and whatever's in the bag will slowly

[22:50] glow go into your bloodstream so there

[22:54] were a few times where I had an IV

[22:56] hooked up to me so we don't always say

[22:58] intravenous we just say IV and on a

[23:02] hospital TV show you might hear them say

[23:04] you know let's get an IV going which

[23:07] means they're going to hook that up to

[23:10] you

[23:11] bandage I probably should have put a

[23:13] bandage on this finger this morning are

[23:15] you tired of looking at that

[23:17] oh it won't focus oh my camera has

[23:20] decided

[23:22] not to focus anymore I don't know why it

[23:24] does that sometimes sometimes my camera

[23:27] just gets a little bit lazy and decides

[23:29] not to focus but oh well a bandage is a

[23:33] little piece of fabric that's sticky

[23:35] that you can put over a small cut or

[23:38] wound or sore that you have on your body

[23:44] and then if you break something they

[23:46] will most likely put on a cast so a cast

[23:48] is made out of plaster it's very very

[23:51] durable

[23:53] um I think they're still made out of

[23:54] plaster I haven't had a cast for a very

[23:56] long time I had a cast once when I was a

[23:58] kid but I have not had one since then

[24:00] and what it does is it holds the bone

[24:04] straight while it heals it prevents you

[24:07] from you know putting pressure onto that

[24:10] bone it keeps it isolated it keeps it

[24:13] immobile while it is healing and usually

[24:16] you can choose the color now one of my

[24:19] kids had a cast

[24:20] eight or nine years ago and she was able

[24:22] to choose the color of her cast I think

[24:25] she chose purple I can't remember Maybe

[24:26] Pink

[24:28] stitches so if you need stitches like

[24:30] this is a pretty small wound this is a

[24:33] pretty small cut I didn't need stitches

[24:35] but if you have a large cut sometimes

[24:39] they need to use a needle and thread to

[24:42] close the wound to close the cut so this

[24:45] person it looks like they had a pretty

[24:47] serious cut on their hand and so they

[24:50] needed stitches so they went to the

[24:52] hospital and either the doctor or nurse

[24:55] put stitches in to close the wound so

[24:58] that it can heal

[25:02] crutches I've been on crutches once in

[25:05] my life when I was a kid I sprained my

[25:08] ankle while playing baseball actually

[25:11] twice I sprained my ankle once when a

[25:13] cow fell on my leg

[25:15] because we grew up on a farm and then

[25:18] once playing baseball this is uh two

[25:21] things that you use so that it's easier

[25:23] to walk when you have a leg

[25:26] knee or ankle or foot injury if you

[25:30] break a leg you will probably be on

[25:32] crutches you might use a wheelchair for

[25:33] a bit but you will be on crutches that's

[25:35] how we say it oh he's on crutches right

[25:37] now he twisted his ankle you can also

[25:40] use a cane which is just a single pole

[25:43] but it's more common if you have an

[25:45] injury to be on crutches for a week or

[25:48] two while your ankle or foot or knee or

[25:51] leg heals

[25:53] when you go to see the doctor it doesn't

[25:57] mean you're going to stay at the

[25:59] hospital when you go to the emergency

[26:02] room it doesn't mean you're going to

[26:04] stay overnight at the hospital but if

[26:06] it's serious enough you might be

[26:08] admitted so I went to the hospital once

[26:11] many years ago and I was admitted I had

[26:14] a really high fever and I had a blood

[26:17] infection so instead of going home

[26:20] they admitted me to the hospital that

[26:22] means they found me a bed they put me in

[26:24] a room they put me on an IV they put

[26:26] antibiotics in the intravenous into the

[26:29] IV bag and I stayed for a few days until

[26:32] I was all better

[26:35] and they put me in a hospital bed now

[26:37] this is definitely different than a

[26:39] normal bed a hospital bed can go up it

[26:42] can go down it has wheels so they can

[26:44] bring you to different places

[26:47] and honestly they're not very

[26:49] comfortable I would say that's maybe

[26:51] they they're not comfortable because

[26:52] they want you to get better quickly and

[26:54] go home

[26:56] hospital room so the room you stay in at

[26:59] a hospital is simply called a hospital

[27:01] room and there are a few different kinds

[27:03] you can be an award

[27:05] which means you're in a room with other

[27:07] people or you can be in a private room

[27:10] which means you are in a room by

[27:12] yourself so when I was in the hospital I

[27:15] was in

[27:16] what's called semi-private I was in a

[27:19] room with one other person when I was

[27:22] younger my dad was in the hospital once

[27:24] and he was in a ward he was in a room

[27:26] with three other people

[27:28] um so we call these all hospital rooms

[27:30] oh what hospital room is he in oh he's

[27:33] in room uh 211 it's a ward there's four

[27:37] people in there or he's in room 212

[27:39] which is a private room but all of these

[27:42] would be called hospital rooms

[27:44] and then we of course have the Maternity

[27:46] Ward which is the area of the hospital

[27:49] where babies arrive I'm not going to

[27:51] explain how this all works but if you

[27:54] are expecting a baby maybe you have a

[27:57] scheduled C-section where they're going

[27:59] to do surgery to remove the baby or

[28:02] maybe you're going to have a natural

[28:03] birth either way you would go to the

[28:05] hospital and they would bring you to the

[28:07] Maternity Ward where they have rooms

[28:09] where women can give birth and then they

[28:11] have rooms where women can stay for a

[28:13] day or two after they give birth

[28:14] depending on how much care they need and

[28:18] of course the baby as well so that is

[28:20] called the Maternity Ward every one of

[28:23] our kids was born in a hospital in a

[28:25] Maternity Ward and then I would go and I

[28:28] was at all of the births it's a great

[28:30] experience and then I could visit Jen in

[28:33] the Maternity Ward and see the newly

[28:35] arrived baby

[28:38] and then of course hospitals have a lot

[28:40] of wheelchairs or if you have problems

[28:43] walking you might have a wheelchair at

[28:46] home a wheelchair is simply a chair a

[28:48] place to sit that has wheels so that you

[28:51] can move yourself around easily without

[28:53] walking or someone can push you okay so

[28:57] wheelchairs are pretty common sites at

[29:00] hospitals in fact if you go to the

[29:03] emergency room they might even make you

[29:05] sit in a wheelchair when they bring you

[29:07] to other parts of the hospital even if

[29:10] you

[29:11] don't have sore legs like maybe you're

[29:13] out of breath or you just feel really

[29:15] weak they might say okay sit in this

[29:18] wheelchair we will bring you to an

[29:21] observation room and we will have a look

[29:23] at you

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