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Vocabulary: going to the doctor's (1)

When you're not feeling well, or when you are feverish, we may have to make an appointment to see the doctor. He will diagnose an illness, find the remedies or complementary measures to cure the patient.  

To book an appointment

The waiting-room

a GP= a General Practitioner

I) Why do we go to the doctor's? What do we suffer from? 

To examine/ to be examined	To have a headache
To have a runny nose	To have a rash

To have one's throat examined	To have one's ears examined
To have hayfever	To have an ultrasound                 / a sonogram

* * Please, notice the constructions: to be examined/ to have (your ears, your throat) examined...): clearly, here, the doctor is the "agent" (doing the action) and the patient is "enduring" the action. Therefore, the passive structure is used:

To have one's .... examined (past participle indicating that the "throat" is being examined. )

- Jim has had his throat examined; Lily will not have her teeth examined, but she had her ears examined. 

As far as technical vocabulary is concerned, here are a few helpful verbs for you: 

Here are a few nouns too...

II) The doctor's tools and a few remedies he prescribes: 

A stethoscope	Pills and capsules
An injection	Blood test
A bandage	A knee-pad

A stethoscope	Pills and capsules
An injection	Blood test
A bandage	A knee-pad

Antibiotics	Syrup
Blood for analysis	A drip
A splint	A cast

I hope you're really feeling well,  don't need to see a doctor,  and will pass the test very easily...  

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