OET Speaking - Medicine - 11. Suspect Kidney Stones

 OET Speaking - Medicine - 11. Suspect Kidney Stones


Setting: Sub-urban Clinic

DOCTOR: An elderly patient has just presented with severe flank pain. He/she looks pale and is walking with difficulty due to pain. You take a urine specimen and discover blood in urine. You suspect renal calculi (kidney stones)

Task: 

* Advise the patient that he/she needs to go to hospital immediately

* Explain possible diagnosis and why hospital treatment is necessary. (e.g., kidney stones may have moved into ureter, etc)

* Explain what is likely to happen in hospital. (e.g., X-ray to find the position of the stone, laser treatment to break up the stones, open surgery unlikely, etc.)

* Assure the patient that he/she will not be given penicillin

* Re-assure the patient, who is terrified of hospitals  and resist going to hospital.

* Gain permission to call an ambulance for him/her.




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