• Language building-up – Signpost language – Formal English – Vocabulary test
• Suggested answers
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Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Useful expressions
• a 56-year-old woman • somewhat overweight • reasonably well-controlled diabetes and hypertension • cholesterol on the high side without any medications for
Questions for discussion
• How do you interpret the title?
– neuron overload – juggling physician
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Unit 1
Text A
Doctors’ Life
Critical reading and thinking
Topics for presentation
1 Do you agree that it is sheer neuron overload on the doctor side that leads to the complaint that doctors don’t listen?
• neuron overload • patients’ high expectations • mistrust and misunderstanding between the
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Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
• Critical reading and thinking – Questions for discussion – Topics for presentation – Useful expressions – Diffic’ Life
Lead-in
Additional activity
What do they mean for a doctor?
– a decent career – a noble calling – respectable – knowledgeable – under great pressure – underpaid – mistrusted – dangerous
patients and physician
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Unit 1
Text A
Doctors’ Life
Topics for presentation
2 Describe Mrs. Osorio’s condition.
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Unit 1
Text A
Doctors’ Life
Critical reading and thinking
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Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Lead-in
Questions to be answered
• What are the causes for complaints of doctors’ being impatient and careless?
• What kind of life does a doctor lead?
学术英语 医学
Academic English for Medicine
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Unit 1
Doctors’ Life
Doctors are thought as noble, respectable, and caring, but it is really common to read or hear about the complaints of doctors’ being impatient and careless. What are the causes for such complaints? How can ordinary incidents influence the way doctors practice medicine? This unit explores doctors’ life from different perspectives so that you can understand them better.
• How can ordinary incidents influence the way doctors practice medicine?
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Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Lead-in
Brainstorm
Brainstorm a list of words and expressions related to a doctor’s life and practice.
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Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Unit Contents
Lead-in Text A Text B Text C Listening Speaking
Writing Get reading for Unit 2
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Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Lead-in
• Questions to be answered • Brainstorm • Additional activity
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Unit 1 Doctors’ Life
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Useful expressions
• in my practice / in a medical practice
this • not as much exercise as she should • thinning of her bones on last DEXA scan • stressful but good about keeping her appointments and
getting her blood tests • generally healthy