day 26at the hospital

at the hospital

Get through a hospital visit: register, explain the problem, follow the doctor, and say “it hurts like mad!”.

today’s words

• 挂号 guàhào · to register (at hospital)
• 门诊 ménzhěn · outpatient (clinic)
• 急诊 jízhěn · emergency (room)
• 救护车 jiùhùchē · ambulance
• 抢救 qiǎngjiù · to give emergency treatment
• 紧急 jǐnjí · urgent, emergency
• 病房 bìngfáng · (hospital) ward
• 手术 shǒushù · operation, surgery
• 诊断 zhěnduàn · to diagnose
• 治疗 zhìliáo · to treat; treatment
• 医疗 yīliáo · medical (care)
• 医学 yīxué · medicine (the science)
• 药品 yàopǐn · medicines, drugs
• 药物 yàowù · medication
• 中药 zhōngyào · Chinese (herbal) medicine
• 中医 zhōngyī · Chinese medicine; TCM doctor
• 伤害 shānghài · to hurt, harm
• 不得了 bùdéliǎo · terrible!; extremely
• 预防 yùfáng · to prevent
• 伸 shēn · to stretch out
• 摸 mō · to touch, feel
• 抽 chōu · to draw (blood); to take out
• 用力 yònglì · to use force, push hard
• 握 wò · to hold, grip
• 扶 fú · to support with the hand

sentences

• 那位病人情况紧急，医生正在抢救。 · That patient is in a critical state, and the doctors are fighting to save him.
• 他疼得不得了，我们马上叫了救护车。 · He was in terrible pain, so we called an ambulance straight away.
• 医生诊断他得了流感，要治疗一个星期。 · The doctor diagnosed flu and said it needs a week of treatment.
• 手术以后，他在病房里住了三天。 · After the operation he stayed on the ward for three days.
• 中医已经有几千年的历史了。 · Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years.