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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