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English for Medicine
Allergies
Keep fit - stay healthy
Medical ethics
Listen: A Doctor's view
Read: Wii surgery
Read: Cyberchondria
Listen: Health Workers
english for medicine
by Carolyn Hardwick

In this section giving some English for Medicine we offer two articles to read and two to listen to, with related vocabulary practice.

  • Read an article about the Wii and its relevance to medicine, check your comprehension and learn or revise some vocabulary related to surgery.
  • Read about the new ailment, cyberchondria, check your understanding in general and in detail and learn some words related to illness.
  • Listen to an interview with a retired doctor, Rajan Mehta, about his life working in the UK and learn some general medical vocabulary.
  • Finally, you can listen to four different health workers describing what their jobs consist of and learn some medical work vocabulary.

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