Students listen to five healthcare professionals sharing their perspectives on topics including medical TV shows in training, patients who self-diagnose using the internet, the challenge of medical uncertainty, community health work during the Ebola outbreak, and the societal context of disease. Activities include vocabulary pre-teaching, comprehension questions, perspective analysis, a debate on patient involvement in healthcare, and a reflective writing task. Students practice analyzing different viewpoints, expressing agreement and disagreement, and using specialized vocabulary.

What's good / bad about being a doctor in your country? Would you like to be one? What about being a nurse?

How easy is it to get into medical school in your country? Should it be easier? Why? / Why not? Which medical schools have the best reputation? Why?

Do you know anyone who's a doctor or nurse? Where do they work? Do they specialize in anything? What do they think of their work and healthcare in their country?

When was the last time you saw a doctor or were treated by a nurse? How was the service? What were they like?

Five speakers share their experiences and perspectives on healthcare. Speaker 1 discusses medical dramas, noting that older shows portrayed doctors as saints while newer shows like House feature flawed, unethical characters. They use the show as a springboard to discuss ethics and bedside manner with trainee doctors. Speaker 2, a doctor, describes feeling undermined when patients bring internet printouts of possible diagnoses and quack cures. They feel their professionalism is dismissed in favor of Google and often try to get patients out quickly. Speaker 3, a doctor who suffers from an unusual chronic condition, discusses how uncertainty in medicine can make doctors defensive and unwilling to budge. Having been misdiagnosed and told their symptoms were "all inside my head," they now strive to be honest and humble with patients. Speaker 4 began medical studies in Sierra Leone but stopped due to the Ebola outbreak. They volunteered with outreach teams and realized the importance of communication and preventative medicine, shifting their career focus from surgery to community health. Speaker 5, a medical historian with an interest in anthropology, discusses how cultural attitudes affect the perception and treatment of diseases, citing nostalgia (homesickness) once treated with blood draining and AIDS requiring societal changes as much as scientific breakthroughs.

Outcomes C1-5 Healthcare Professionals On Medical Matters

outcomes-c1-5-healthcare-professionals-on-medical-matters

Let's do English ESL general vocabulary practice. Students listen to five healthcare professionals sharing their perspectives on topics including medical TV sho…