eu unit 12
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Alternatives Unit 12
Vocabulary •Placebo - substance patients take to feel
better as they believe to be treated by medicine
•Homeopathy - treatment using natural substance
•Side-effect - reaction caused by drugs, other than the main effect
•Remedy - something to make you better when you are ill, cure
•The best remedy for stress is letting go.
•Treatment - something you try to do to cure illness or injury
•Does your health insurance cover this kind of treatment?
•Access - right, opportunity to use or see something
•Patients have access to their own records.
•Potentially - possibly
•Rule out - to decide that something will not happen or someone is not suitable
•Tried and tested - used many times before and proved to be successful
•Acupuncture - a way of treating pain or illness by putting thin needles into different parts of body
•Acupuncture doesn’t cause any pain for the needles are thin.
•Antibiotic - a medicine that cures infections by destroying harmful bacteria
•Hypnosis - a mental state like sleep which can be easily influenced by other people
•Massage - applying pressure onto the muscles
•Painkiller - a drug that reduces pain
•Physiotherapy - treatment for injury in which you practice moving parts of your body
•Surgery - a procedure where a doctor cut open a part of body to remove or treat an illness
•Vaccination - substance is put into the system to prevent or treat diseases
•Health insurance - medical care is paid by an insurance company
•Free of charge - costing nothing
•Check-up - a general medical examination to see if you are healthy
•Entitled to - to have the right to
•Discuss something openly - to talk about something in a direct & open way
•Constantly - all the time or often
•Publicly - openly, with people as witness
•I’d like to see homeopaths debating publicly with their critics
•Reasonably - in a fair way, showing judgment
•Thoroughly - very carefully
•Consideration - thinking about something very carefully
•Scientific basis - showing true existence according to science
•Symptom - physical reaction to show that you have an illness
•Worthless - without any merit, value