Let's Learn English! Topic: Hospitals 👩‍⚕️🩺🏥 (Lesson Only)

0:00 Well, hello and welcome to this

0:01 English lesson about hospitals.

0:04 Hospitals are places you go when

0:06 you are injured or sick or suffering

0:09 from some sort of illness.

0:11 By the way, being sick

0:12 and having an illness are pretty

0:14 much the same thing.

0:15 A hospital here in Canada,

0:17 and I think in most parts

0:18 of the world, is a large building.

0:20 And there are several different areas

0:22 in the hospital where you go, depending

0:25 on what is wrong with you.

0:26 And usually the first place

0:27 you go if it's an emergency

0:29 is the ER or emergency room.

0:32 But I'm getting into the lesson

0:33 already, so let me stop and just

0:35 say welcome once again to this

0:37 English lesson about hospitals.

0:40 Patient, a person receiving medical care.

0:43 So if you go to the doctor's office or

0:46 if you go to the hospital and there is

0:49 something wrong with you, maybe you've

0:51 hurt your arm in a car accident, maybe

0:53 you have really bad headaches, maybe

0:56 you.

0:57 Let me see what else could have

0:59 happened, maybe a dog bit you.

1:00 You might then become a, patient,

1:02 a person receiving medical care.

1:06 When you go to a doctor's office or to

1:08 a hospital, sometimes they will put a

1:11 little band around your arm with your

1:13 name on it so that everyone that

1:15 talks to you and sees you at the

1:17 hospital, knows that you are a

1:20 patient there.

1:20 So once again, a patient,

1:22 a person receiving medical care.

1:26 Hospital, a place where people go

1:28 to receive medical care and treatment.

1:31 So a hospital is again, usually

1:33 a very large building and you can see

1:36 at the bottom it says emergency.

1:39 That's usually where people go

1:41 when they need attention right away.

1:43 I'll teach that, term in just a moment.

1:46 But in Canada, most hospitals look like this.

1:50 Usually a large building where people go

1:53 to receive medical care and treatment.

1:55 If you're in a car accident,

1:56 they'll take you to the hospital.

1:58 If you have something minor, though,

2:01 you usually don't go to the hospital.

2:04 If I had a really bad cold,

2:06 I would go and see my doctor

2:08 in the doctor's office.

2:10 So hospitals are usually

2:11 for very, very serious things.

2:15 Er, emergency room, the part of

2:17 a hospital where people get immediate

2:19 care for serious injuries or illnesses.

2:22 So I've mentioned this a few times.

2:24 ER is short for emergency room.

2:27 We often just say er.

2:29 Sometimes we even just say emergency.

2:31 Did you go to emergency?

2:33 Did you go to the er,

2:34 did you go to emerge?

2:36 We even shorten the word sometimes.

2:38 But it's the part

2:39 of the hospital where you would go.

2:41 If it's 4 o' clock in the morning

2:43 and you have something

2:45 seriously wrong with you, you would go

2:48 to the error, the emergency

2:50 room or emergency or Emerge.

2:53 And that's where I went.

2:54 I went to emerge.

2:55 I went to the part of the hospital where

2:56 people get immediate care for serious

2:59 injuries or illnesses, the waiting

3:04 room, an area where patients

3:06 sit and wait before seeing a doctor.

3:09 So when I went to the hospital,

3:11 I'm going to talk a little bit about

3:13 my trip as I teach this lesson.

3:15 Went to the waiting room and I

3:17 sat and waited even though I wasn't

3:20 feeling well, even though I needed,

3:24 fairly immediate care.

3:26 I did sit in the waiting room

3:28 for about a minute.

3:30 So it was really nice that they

3:32 were able to see me quickly.

3:34 Triage the area of a hospital

3:36 and the process of deciding

3:38 which patients need care first.

3:41 So triage is an interesting thing

3:43 because it's a place like this is

3:46 triage 2, but it's also a verb.

3:49 They will triage you.

3:51 So triage basically works this way.

3:53 If five people come to the emergency

3:55 room, they will have a quick look at

3:59 all of you, like almost immediately,

4:01 and they'll decide who has the most

4:05 serious situation and who needs to

4:07 go and see the nurse and doctor

4:10 first.

4:11 So let's just say when I went

4:12 to triage, I was immediately taken in

4:14 for them to look at me.

4:16 But triage the area of a hospital

4:18 and the process of deciding

4:20 which patients need care first.

4:22 Let me just explain one more time.

4:24 This is the triage area

4:27 where you get triaged.

4:28 So again, in English, sometimes

4:30 we use nouns and verbs.

4:32 A word can be a noun and verb.

4:37 Nurse, a medical worker who cares

4:39 for patients and helps doctors.

4:41 And then we have doctor and physician,

4:43 a person trained to diagnose

4:45 and treat illnesses and injuries.

4:48 If you're wondering what is

4:50 the difference between a nurse

4:52 and a doctor, it really

4:54 comes down to how much time

4:57 you spent studying medicine.

5:00 So a nurse might go to school

5:02 for two years or three years

5:04 and become a nurse.

5:05 They might go for an additional year or

5:07 two, become a nurse practitioner, which

5:11 is someone who knows more than a nurse.

5:13 And a doctor is usually

5:15 in school for six to eight years,

5:17 depending on where you go.

5:19 So really the only difference

5:21 between a nurse and a doctor or

5:24 physician is that a nurse spends

5:26 less time studying and maybe

5:29 learning more of the hands on

5:30 things like giving needles and

5:32 putting on bandages.

5:34 Whereas a doctor may specialize

5:36 and be able to do surgery.

5:38 If you're wondering, in Canada we still

5:40 have, I think 90% of our nurses are

5:43 usually women, although there are 10%

5:45 of the population are male nurses.

5:48 When it comes to doctors and physicians

5:50 though, it's almost 50, 50.

5:52 I wanted to teach the term 50.

5:54 50.

5:55 Half of our doctors are

5:56 men, and the other half

5:57 of our doctors are women.

5:58 I think it's a little skewed still.

6:01 I think it's more like 48%, 52%, like

6:05 47% of doctors are women, 52% are men.

6:08 But, that is the split.

6:12 Surgeon, a doctor who performs

6:14 operations on patients.

6:16 So I want to be clear here.

6:17 I did not require surgery

6:20 when I was at the hospital.

6:21 So a surgeon performs an operation

6:23 or performs surgery, and it's

6:26 something they do to help fix

6:28 something that's wrong with you.

6:31 So a surgeon is a doctor who

6:32 performs operations on patients.

6:35 When I went for heart surgery

6:38 almost 10 years ago now,

6:40 a surgeon did the surgery.

6:43 And a specialist, a doctor who focuses

6:45 on one area of medicine.

6:48 So when I broke my collarbone,

6:50 I had to go see a specialist, a doctor

6:53 who specializes in broken bones.

6:57 That means they became a doctor.

6:59 But they've also learned more.

7:02 They know more about

7:03 a certain part of the human body.

7:06 So, let me see here.

7:08 A cardiologist is a specialist,

7:11 on the heart.

7:13 The doctor that I saw for my fracture

7:15 is a specialist in broken bones.

7:18 So specialist, a doctor who focuses

7:21 on one area of medicine.

7:23 Often when you go to your family

7:25 doctor, they will then send you

7:27 to a specialist if they don't know

7:30 exactly how to help you.

7:33 Hospital gown, a loose piece

7:35 of clothing worn by patients

7:37 in a hospital that is easy to put

7:38 on and remove for medical care.

7:40 So if you go to a hospital,

7:42 you have to wear a hospital gown.

7:45 One of the reasons you wear a hospital

7:47 gown is if they need to do something

7:49 quickly, they can easily access

7:52 different parts of your body or

7:54 something as simple as they needed to

7:57 put a heart rate monitor on me, they

7:59 can easily access the parts of my body

8:01 to put all of the.

8:03 The little sticker leads on.

8:06 But they're not.

8:07 They're not exactly pleasant to wear.

8:10 So a hospital gown is a very loose piece

8:12 of clothing worn by patients

8:14 in a hospital that it's easy to put

8:16 on and remove for medical care.

8:19 It's not very.

8:19 In English, we would say it's not

8:21 very flattering, like, you don't

8:23 look great wearing a hospital gown.

8:25 But the intention is, you can see too,

8:29 the sleeves have snaps.

8:31 So if all of the sudden something

8:34 went wrong, they could easily,

8:37 you know, open it up

8:38 to do whatever they needed to do.

8:40 But yes, a hospital gown,

8:42 a very loose piece of clothing worn

8:43 by patients in a hospital

8:45 that it's easy to put on and remove

8:47 for Medical care, hospital bed.

8:50 A movable bed designed

8:51 for patients in a hospital.

8:54 The bed I was in was actually.

8:56 You can kind of see it

8:57 in the background there.

8:58 It was a very modern bed.

9:00 This is a, a bit

9:01 of an older bed, I would say.

9:04 But my, my bed, they could drive it

9:08 like it had, like it had.

9:12 It, had motorized wheels so they

9:15 could drive me around in the bed.

9:17 It was, it was pretty cool.

9:19 But like I said, it's a brand

9:21 new hospital, so they have

9:22 a lot of brand new things.

9:24 A hospital bed as well.

9:26 You can kind of raise and lower

9:28 the section where your head is.

9:30 So if you want to sit up, you can sit

9:32 up, instead of laying around all day.

9:37 Different than a stretcher.

9:38 So if you ever watch a sports, game, any

9:42 kind of athletic match, a stretcher is

9:44 an apparatus designed for transporting

9:46 patients needing medical care.

9:48 If a football player twists

9:51 their ankle or can't walk, they will

9:53 come out with a stretcher.

9:55 They will put him or her onto

9:57 the stretcher, and then they are able

9:59 to carry them Wherever they need

10:01 to go to get medical care.

10:03 So stretcher apparatus designed

10:06 for transporting patients needing medical care.

10:10 And a wheelchair.

10:11 This is the exact wheelchair that,

10:14 they made me use in the hospital.

10:16 A, chair with wheels used to move people

10:18 who cannot walk or should not walk.

10:20 I was in the second category.

10:22 They didn't want me to walk because

10:25 I had lost blood and they were

10:27 afraid that I might pass out or

10:29 that I might become unconscious.

10:31 That didn't happen.

10:33 It was close though,

10:34 but it didn't happen.

10:36 But a chair with wheels used

10:37 to move people who cannot

10:38 walk or should not walk.

10:40 So I thought this was

10:41 a pretty fancy wheelchair.

10:44 So I spent some time trying

10:45 to find the exact model.

10:48 I don't think this was motorized.

10:51 I think they had to push

10:52 me when I was in it.

10:53 But yes, a chair with wheels that

10:55 allows them to move people around.

10:58 IV intravenous.

11:00 A needle tube and fluid pouch

11:01 used to give fluids or

11:02 medicine directly into a vein.

11:05 I did experience this part

11:06 of it because I had lost lots

11:08 of fluids, I had lost blood.

11:11 They did have a needle

11:12 that went into a vein.

11:15 I think they did a couple

11:16 different spots.

11:17 I think it was on my left arm, actually.

11:19 And then they had what they called,

11:22 sometimes we just call it

11:23 a drip because it drips water in.

11:26 But, yes, they put me on IV

11:28 or if you want to use the whole

11:30 word, they put me on intravenous.

11:32 So a Needle tube and fluid

11:33 pouch used to give fluids or

11:35 medicine directly into a vein.

11:39 Vital signs, basic body

11:41 measurements like heart rate, blood

11:42 pressure and temperature.

11:44 So you can kind of see.

11:46 Let me go back to this picture.

11:49 It's kind of, If you look at my

11:51 right arm at the bottom there, that

11:53 is the little machine that was

11:55 monitoring all of my vital signs.

11:58 So when you are monitoring vital

12:00 signs, well, that's really big.

12:02 You could see on here, it was monitoring

12:05 my blood, oxygen level, my heart rate,

12:08 and probably a few other things.

12:10 I know it took my blood pressure

12:12 every half hour.

12:14 The little thing would, you know,

12:16 how it would squeeze the arm and then

12:18 it would take my blood pressure.

12:19 But yes, vital signs, basic body

12:22 measurements like heart rate,

12:23 blood pressure and temperature.

12:26 Heart monitor, a machine that shows

12:28 the heartbeat and heart activity.

12:30 So I was put on a heart monitor

12:33 because in the past I have had heart

12:36 surgery and they wanted to make sure

12:37 that my heart was working good.

12:39 And it worked great the whole time.

12:41 I was very happy about that.

12:43 But a heart monitor is a special machine

12:45 that shows the heart rate

12:47 or heartbeat and heart activity.

12:49 You could say heart rate as well.

12:51 That would work.

12:53 Oxygen, A device that helps a patient

12:56 breathe by giving extra oxygen.

12:58 They might put an oxygen mask

13:00 on someone, or they might just

13:02 do this, which kind of just

13:03 puts oxygen into your nose.

13:06 Just a little bit of oxygen.

13:07 They did do this when I first arrived,

13:10 but they took it off fairly

13:12 quickly because they realized I didn't

13:14 really need, I didn't really need

13:18 oxygen, but I did have that little.

13:20 With two little things that go in your

13:22 nose and it kind of pushes oxygen in.

13:24 So you might be put on oxygen,

13:26 you might need oxygen.

13:28 But all of that refers to a device

13:30 that helps a patient breathe

13:32 by giving them extra oxygen.

13:35 Blood tests, medical tests

13:37 that check a sample of blood.

13:39 So when they take blood, that's how we.

13:43 That's how we say it.

13:44 They need to take blood

13:45 and then the blood is sent to a lab.

13:48 So they might say, we're going

13:49 to do some blood tests.

13:50 You need a blood test.

13:52 We need to find out what's in your

13:53 blood, whether you have healthy blood.

13:56 And so they will use a little

13:57 needle and they will poke your

13:59 arm and they will fill these

14:01 little test tubes with blood.

14:04 By the way, hopefully you don't

14:05 faint at the sight of blood.

14:06 Cause there is blood in this slide.

14:08 And then they will check to make sure

14:10 that your iron levels are correct.

14:12 They'll check to make sure that your

14:14 hemoglobin levels are correct.

14:16 And a number of Other things that I

14:17 learned when I was at the hospital.

14:20 But yes, that's how we say it.

14:22 I think I actually have a slide.

14:24 To take blood means to collect blood

14:26 from a patient for testing.

14:28 So this might be something you do,

14:30 every few years, your doctor might

14:33 say, just to make sure you're

14:34 healthy, let's take some blood and

14:37 do a blood test to find out if

14:40 everything is working the way it's

14:42 supposed to.

14:44 Icu, the intensive care unit.

14:47 I was not in the intensive care unit,

14:49 but this is a special area for patients

14:51 who need very close monitoring.

14:54 So the icu, and we usually

14:57 just call it that, we rarely

14:58 say intensive care unit.

15:00 We might say intensive care,

15:03 but here's how I would use it.

15:06 The man had an accident

15:07 and he was in the ICU for two days.

15:10 Or the man had a car accident and he was

15:12 in intensive care for two days.

15:15 So that's how we use it in a sentence.

15:17 It's an area in the hospital where

15:19 there are a lot more doctors and nurses

15:22 there all the time, and they

15:25 very closely monitor the patient.

15:27 So a very special area for patients

15:30 who need very close monitoring.

15:31 If you have surgery, let's say you

15:34 have heart surgery, after the

15:36 surgery, you will probably be in

15:38 the ICU for half a day or a few

15:42 hours until they make sure

15:44 everything is working the way

15:46 it's supposed to.

15:47 So icu, Intensive care unit,

15:49 a special area for patients who

15:51 need very close monitoring.

15:55 Or we shorten these

15:57 things a lot, don't we?

15:58 Or operating room, the room

15:59 where surgeries are performed.

16:01 So if they need to, like, fix something

16:03 inside of you, if you need surgery,

16:07 you need to, go to the hospital,

16:09 they will get you ready for surgery.

16:11 And then at a certain point,

16:12 you will be taken to the.

16:13 Or you'll be taken to the operating

16:16 room, which is a very clean room, a

16:19 very sanitary room, because they

16:21 don't want you to get an infection,

16:23 and that's where they will do the

16:25 surgery.

16:25 So.

16:25 Or operating room, the room

16:27 where surgeries are performed.

16:31 To examine.

16:31 We're going to look at a few verbs

16:33 now, maybe a little quicker.

16:35 To examine is to check

16:36 a patient's body for problems.

16:39 So when you first go to see a doctor

16:42 or when you first go to the emergency

16:44 room, they will examine you.

16:46 They will check to see

16:47 what your heart rate is.

16:48 They might look in your eye

16:50 to see if everything looks good.

16:52 But to examine, to check a patient's

16:54 body for problems and then to diagnose,

16:57 to identify a disease or condition.

17:00 So I hurt my arm.

17:02 They might first examine my arm.

17:04 And then they might say,

17:05 you need an X ray.

17:06 And then they might say,

17:08 when they diagnose me, they might

17:09 say, your arm is broken.

17:11 You need a cast.

17:12 So to diagnose is to identify

17:15 a disease or condition.

17:17 To treat, to give medical care,

17:19 to help someone get better.

17:21 This person is getting a needle.

17:23 So they examined this person and they

17:25 diagnosed, they needed the needle

17:28 to help them feel better.

17:29 So to treat means to give medical care

17:32 to help someone get better,

17:35 to admit, to officially accept

17:38 a patient into the hospital.

17:40 So let me explain this.

17:42 When you go to the emergency room,

17:45 you have not been admitted

17:47 to the hospital yet.

17:48 You are waiting to have someone

17:50 look at you when they ask you

17:52 to come to, a room in the back to,

17:57 to examine and to diagnose.

17:59 You still have not been

18:00 admitted to the hospital.

18:02 But if they say, we'd like

18:04 to keep you overnight or you need

18:06 to stay overnight, they will then

18:08 admit you to the hospital.

18:09 They'll take you from the emergency room

18:11 to a normal hospital room,

18:14 and then that's where you will

18:15 stay for a day or two.

18:19 To monitor, to regularly

18:21 check a patient's condition.

18:23 So for me, they wanted to monitor

18:26 my vital signs, they wanted

18:27 to monitor my blood, they wanted

18:30 to monitor, monitor my blood

18:32 pressure, and a few other things.

18:34 So to monitor means to regularly

18:36 check a patient's condition

18:39 and to discharge, to allow a patient

18:41 to leave the hospital.

18:43 You know, this person is being

18:45 discharged because they are no

18:46 longer wearing a hospital gown.

18:49 So that must be a nice feeling.

18:52 Was very excited when they took

18:54 the needle out of my arm and I

18:56 could take off my hospital

18:57 gown and put on normal clothing.

18:59 And then they still made me

19:01 ride in a wheelchair to the door,

19:04 of the hospital.

19:04 I think they just don't want anyone

19:06 to trip or fall on their way out.

19:09 And then to recuperate.

19:11 Let me say that word again.

19:13 It's a little tricky to recuperate

19:15 to rest and recover your health

19:16 and strength after being sick, injured,

19:18 or having a medical procedure.

19:21 So they told me, you can go home.

19:23 You need to take five days

19:24 off work to recuperate.

19:26 You need to just rest.

19:29 Your body needs time to heal.

19:31 You need time to become strong again.

19:34 So to recuperate, to rest and recover

19:36 your health and strength after

19:39 being sick, injured, or having

19:40 a medical procedure, to follow up.

19:43 Now, this verb works two ways.

19:46 Your doctor might follow up

19:47 with you, which is to check

19:49 on a patient after treatment.

19:51 But they might also say, you need to

19:53 follow up with your doctor in a week.

19:55 You should call and make an appointment

19:57 so the doctor can follow

19:59 up on you, but you can also

20:01 follow up with your doctor.

20:02 There's two ways to use that

20:05 verb and then just two fun

20:07 things to end the lesson.

20:09 Short staffed means not having

20:10 enough workers available.

20:12 The hospital I went to did

20:14 not seem short staffed.

20:16 I feel like they had enough

20:17 nurses and doctors that I was

20:20 very well taken care of.

20:21 But sometimes when you go

20:23 to an er, it looks like this

20:25 because they don't have enough workers.

20:28 They don't have enough

20:29 nurses or doctors.

20:30 They are short staffed.

20:32 So, this would not be an enjoyable

20:34 visit to the hospital.

20:36 And then lastly, let's talk about,

20:38 what did Jen do in all of this?

20:39 Jen would come and visit

20:41 and she would park.

20:42 And it was paid parking.

20:44 Our hospitals require that you pay to park.

20:46 A parking area where you

20:48 must pay to leave your car.

20:50 This is pretty common in Ontario,

20:53 Canada, that when you visit someone

20:55 at the hospital, sometimes parking is

20:57 the most expensive part of the visit.

21:00 Thankfully, at our hospital,

21:02 I think it was only $6,

21:04 but they definitely had paid parking.

21:06 A parking area where you

21:07 must pay to leave your car.