OET Speaking. Medicine -7

 OET Speaking (Medicine) - 7


SETTING : Medical Ward

DOCTOR

You are a medical doctor working in an in-patient ward. Your patient is a 54-year -old and was admitted 2 days ago with right lower lobe pneumonia. They have made significant improvement with intravenous antibiotics and the decision was made by the team to discharge home with a further  3 days oral antibiotics from today.

TASK

* Explain that the intravenous antibiotics have treated the pneumonia; the blood tests and vital signs are still re-assuring and the plan is for discharge today with tablet antibiotics for another 3 days.

* Ask about their home and work situation and recommend a medical certificate for a further week off work.

* Advise to return to the hospital if if not feeling better after a week , or sooner if they have worrying symptoms (e.g., chest pain,acute shortness of breath, high fever.)

* Inform they will need a chest x-ray in 6 weeks  to ensure full resolution of the x-ray findings.

* Explain that the x-ray is very important to rule out the small possibility of serious underlying disease, for example, cancer. Re-assure that appointments for x-ray can be flexible around working hours. 









 


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