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English Practice For HealthcareEnglish Practice For Healthcare - Episode 10In the tenth episode of English Practice for Healthcare we hear from George and Theresa about George’s experience of type 2 diabetes. Every healthcare professional will come across a patient with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes and this long-term condition needs to be considered when formulating their care plan. Diabetes is an area of healthcare in its own right and in both a community and hospital environment there will be specialist teams you can consult for support in caring for patients with diabetes. In this episode you will hear about the relationship of type 2 diabetes to the food we ea...
2024-07-1825 min
English Practice For HealthcareEnglish Practice For Healthcare - Episode 09In my ninth episode there is the opportunity to hear three examples of different English idioms as you listen to Lynne and I’s discussion of her experience of the menopause. There are again many points you can reflect on, which means to think carefully about something and consider different possibilities, opinions, and approaches to something. Reflection is an important skill in healthcare, and it helps us to continuously improve the care we deliver. I recommend the UK organisation ‘The Menopause Charity’ to complete some further study and to practice your English reading skills. They have some fantastic resources, specif...
2024-05-0135 min
English Practice For HealthcareEnglish Practice For Healthcare - Episode 08In this episode you can continue to build on your knowledge of the storytelling tenses for past events used in English from the last two episodes. Anne, like Kevin is describing something that happened over 10 years ago. Also, like Kevin, she can remember what happened in great detail as she shares a very significant health event in her life, having a stroke. There is the opportunity to reflect on the different ways stroke and stroke recovery affect people and use this as a platform for your own learning into the role of occupational therapists in modern day healthcare.
2024-03-2930 min
English Practice For HealthcareEnglish Practice For Healthcare - Episode 07Disclaimer: please note this episode contains quite graphic descriptions of medical procedures involving bones.This is part two of the interview with Kevin, which covers the theme of broken bones. In this episode you can learn more about how external fixators work in orthopaedic surgery and about some of the adaptations people have to make to daily life with these on. Including to the clothes they wear! There is another example of an idiom and more opportunities to hear some descriptive language about pain. Kevin’s re-telling of his experience also gives us an opportunity to re...
2024-03-0824 min
English Practice For HealthcareEnglish Practice For Healthcare - Episode 06Disclaimer: please note this episode contains quite graphic descriptions of surgery.In the sixth episode we hear from Kevin about how he seriously broke his leg while skiing in France. You can hear lots of useful examples of the simple past perfect and present perfect continuous tense. This is because these tenses are often used when we are retelling a story of something that happened in the past. This is part one of this two-part interview with Kevin as there was too much to include in just one episode! Kevin unfortunately had to have two surgeries...
2024-02-2626 min
English Practice For HealthcareEnglish Practice For Healthcare - Episode 05In this episode you have the opportunity to hear a strong example of a Yorkshire accent. Mark talks about being gluten intolerant, what symptoms he gets if he consumes gluten, and he also teaches us a lot about the beer making process! I discuss the importance of the terminology and language we use when talking about conditions that require patients to follow a gluten free lifestyle. For example, coeliac disease. For more information about these conditions please see the website of the charity Coeliac UK, which was very useful when I was researching this episode. Home...
2024-02-0728 min
English Practice For HealthcareEnglish Practice For Healthcare - Episode 04Disclaimer: Please note there is one instance of swearing in this episode used by the interviewee in a description of his ear issues.In the fourth episode you can learn about ear problems, the language used to describe having an ear infection and hear how this affects Jack in his day-to-day life. There is some useful language on describing pain and how to talk about different types of pain in more detail. You can also hear about Jack and I’s own experience of visiting a healthcare centre in a country where English was not the first la...
2024-01-2427 min
English Practice For HealthcareEnglish Practice For Healthcare - Episode 03In the third episode you can improve your listening skills and your range of vocabulary to talk about Crohn’s disease. Vicky gives an honest account of Crohn’s diagnosis, how it made her feel and her experience of different treatments. She talks about the different healthcare professionals she worked with, including research nurses and Registrars. Registrars are doctors that are in their training to become specialists in a certain area of medicine. They have a number of years’ experience of being a doctor already and have now decided what area of healthcare they wish to specialise in. Please see a...
2023-12-1626 min
English Practice For HealthcareEnglish Practice For Healthcare - Episode 02This is the second episode in a series of interviews with English speakers about their personal health experiences. They are designed to support your English language learning in the context of healthcare, especially your listening skills. In this episode I talk to Olga about her experience of Hyperemesis Gravidarum. She describes being diagnosed with this condition and in what ways it impacted her day-to-day life during pregnancy. There is a wide range of useful vocabulary on the topic of pregnancy, for example, ‘to be induced’ or ‘to have an induction’, which is the term for when labour is stimulated for a pr...
2023-11-1324 min
English Practice For HealthcareEnglish Practice For Healthcare - Debut EpisodeThis is the first episode in a series of interviews with English speakers about their personal health experiences. They are designed to support your English language learning in the context of healthcare, especially your listening skills. In this episode I talk to Tim about his experience of 'post-concussion syndrome’. He talks us through what happened, and his main symptoms. We discuss how these symptoms affected his life both at the time of his accident and now. This demonstrates the wide-reaching effects of health not just on people’s bodies but the relationships, work life and self-esteem. Tim tells us abou...
2023-10-3123 min