1. Consultation Unit 2: In the Surgical Clinic
Nursing English
Consultation
Unit 2: In the Surgical Clinic

2. Mr Smith in the Surgical Clinic
Mr Smith is in the surgical clinic 外科 because of pain in his stomach 肚子疼.
Dr Steve examines 检查 the patient by listening to his heart and lungs 心肺, and feeling his abdomen 腹部.
He finds that there is tenderness 压痛 over the stomach 胃脏.

3. Medical Vocabulary auscultation: to listen to the
sounds of the body using a
stethoscope 听诊
palpation: using your hands
to feel the body during an
examination 触诊

4. Medical Vocabulary rigidity: hardness 刚性 epigastria: the middle
of the abdomen near
the stomach 腹上部的

5. Dialogue 1
heartburn: a pain in the chest that comes from the stomach 胃灼热
also: indigestion 消化不良
usually from eating spicy food
or from stress
bitter: a sharp, unpleasant taste 苦的
also: sour

6. Dialogue 1 What are Mr Smith’s symptoms?
What could they be related to? What is happening in his life lately?
What did the doctor do to find which part of Mr Smith’s body is painful?
Have you ever had a doctor auscultate (listen to) your chest or palpate (feel) your abdomen?

8. Auscultation: Listening

10. Palpation: Feeling

12. Dialogue 2 peptic ulcer: a sore in the lining of the stomach 胃溃疡
also: gastric ulcer, stomach ulcer

13. Dialogue 3
injection: a dose of medicine given by a needle using a syringe 注射，打针
also: “a shot”
“I’m going to give you a shot now.”
syringe: 注射器
buttocks: 屁股
tincture: 酊剂
also: antiseptic 防腐剂
sterilize: to clean so there are no bacteria
消毒，没有细菌

14. Dialogue 3 dressing: 包扎伤口 usually used as a noun 绷带
“I need to change your dressing.”
NOT “I need to dress your wound.”

15. Dialogue 3
Why do you need to sterilize the skin before giving an injection?
Why do you think the nurse checked the dressing?
Why does the nurse need to call the doctor?

16. What words can we use to describe pain?

17. “On a scale of 1-10 with 1 being no pain, and 10 being terrible pain, how is your pain?”