day 69at the hospital

at the hospital

Find your way through a Chinese hospital: records, tests, prescriptions, doses, drips and operations, and set a condition with 非得……才…….

today’s words

• 就医 jiùyī · to see a doctor, get treatment
• 就诊 jiùzhěn · to see a doctor (at a clinic)
• 求医 qiúyī · to seek medical help
• 诊所 zhěnsuǒ · clinic
• 医务 yīwù · medical work
• 临床 línchuáng · clinical (at the bedside)
• 会诊 huìzhěn · to hold a consultation (several doctors)
• 病历 bìnglì · medical record, case history
• 病症 bìngzhèng · illness, symptoms
• 床位 chuángwèi · bed (in a hospital, a sleeper train)
• 化验 huàyàn · to do a lab test
• 复查 fùchá · to have a follow-up check
• 处方 chǔfāng · prescription; to prescribe
• 药方 yàofāng · prescription, remedy
• 剂 jì · dose; (measure) a dose of medicine
• 剂量 jìliàng · dosage
• 过量 guòliàng · excessive; to overdo it
• 适量 shìliàng · in moderation, the right amount
• 胶囊 jiāonáng · capsule
• 抗生素 kàngshēngsù · antibiotic
• 安眠药 ānmiányào · sleeping pill
• 注射 zhùshè · to inject; injection
• 输液 shūyè · to be on a drip
• 输血 shūxuè · to have / give a blood transfusion
• 麻醉 mázuì · to anaesthetise; anaesthesia
• 切除 qiēchú · to remove (surgically)
• 移植 yízhí · to transplant
• 缝合 fénghé · to stitch up (a wound)
• 救治 jiùzhì · to give emergency treatment
• 护理 hùlǐ · to nurse; nursing care
• 看护 kānhù · to look after (a patient); carer

sentences

• 这种药非得有医生的处方才能买。 · You can only buy this medicine with a doctor’s prescription.
• 奶奶的病非得到大医院复查，我们才放心。 · We won’t rest easy until Grandma has had her follow-up at a big hospital.
• 安眠药过量是很危险的。 · An overdose of sleeping pills is very dangerous.
• 医生正在给病人缝合伤口。 · The doctor is stitching up the patient’s wound.
• 化验结果下午就能出来。 · The lab results will be ready this afternoon.